Teenage girl storms school with gun and opens fire on class - leaving two dead
A teenage girl shot several of her classmates at her school with her father’s rifle, killing at least one, before turning the gun on herself .
Unconfirmed reports suggest the shooter - named locally as Alina A - arrived late at her school, Gymnasium Number 5 in Bryansk, Russia, armed with a pump action shotgun. She is said to have walked into the biology lesson and opened fire, before shooting herself. Local media said two people died - the shooter and a female student named as Maria N. Four boys - named as Timofey B, Vitaly D, Pyotr E, and Timur D were also hurt, as well as a woman named Evelina K.
Police outside Gymnasium Number Five in Bryansk (Kommersant Photo/AFP via Getty I)One of the victims is said to be in intensive care after being shot in the chest, forearm and knee and lost a lot of blood. Local media described the shooter as “reserved and not very sociable”.
The Ministry of Internal Affairs for the Bryansk region said in a statement: “Today the police received a report of a shooting at gymnasium No. 5 in the city of Bryansk. Police officers immediately went to the scene. According to preliminary information, one of the students brought a firearm into the gymnasium building and fired several times, as a result of which three people were injured.
"After this, the girl committed suicide. The motives and circumstances of the incident are being established.”
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The shooter’s sister - 14-year-old Dasha - was in one of the classrooms when her twin started shooting. She was unharmed in the horror and was questioned afterwards by police. Their father, Dmitry, was also quizzed over his gun used by his daughter.
A student said: "We were just sitting in English and heard gunshots. We got up and immediately heard a second, third shot. We panicked, started closing windows, putting desks on top of each other. None of the teachers answered anything. It turned out a girl from the 8th grade came with a gun and started shooting.”
Another youngster said: “Everything was normal until the second lesson. The police came, the ambulance... That's it. The girl carried a shotgun in her rucksack and shots were heard in the second lesson.
The head teacher asked us to close the door. Then, after the signal, we ran to the locker room, but while we were walking there was blood on the third floor. We went down, got dressed and left the school.”
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