8 killed, 24 hurt in mass shooting at university in Russia
The Interior Ministry said the gunman was detained after Monday's shooting at Perm State University.
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In this drawback taken from video, a radical of students respond and talk connected their phones adjacent the Perm State University successful Perm, astir 1,100 kilometers (700 miles) eastbound of Moscow, Russia, Monday, Sept. 20, 2021. A gunman opened occurrence successful a assemblage successful the Russian metropolis of Perm connected Monday morning, leaving astatine slightest 8 radical dormant and others wounded, according to Russia's Investigative Committee. (AP Photo)
By: The Associated Press & Scripps National
Posted at 6:52 AM, Sep 20, 2021
and past updated 2021-09-20 07:52:25-04
MOSCOW — Officials accidental a gunman has opened occurrence astatine a assemblage successful Russia, leaving 8 radical dormant and 24 hurt.
The Interior Ministry said the gunman was detained aft Monday's shooting astatine Perm State University.
The BBC reports that officials judge the gunman, identified arsenic a pupil astatine the school, acted unsocial and had "no governmental oregon spiritual motives."
Students and unit astatine the assemblage locked themselves successful rooms, and the schoolhouse urged those who could permission the field to bash so. The BBC reports that immoderate students jumped retired of windows to debar the assailant.
The assemblage said astir 3,000 radical were connected the field astatine the clip of the shooting.
The assemblage property work said the perpetrator utilized a weapon designed to occurrence non-lethal rubber oregon integrative projectiles, but that tin beryllium modified to occurrence different ammunition.
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