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A man opened fire on a kindergarten in the central Russian city of Ulyanovsk today, killing two students and a kindergarten teacher and then committing suicide, a local government official told AFP.
“According to initial reports, shots were fired at a kindergarten. Two children are dead, one a kindergarten teacher and the perpetrator as well,” Dmitry Kamal, a spokesman for the local authorities, told AFP.
He said the age of the children was not known, but was probably “between three and six years old”, adding that investigators were at the scene of the attack.
According to Russian news agencies, citing law enforcement forces, “the reason for the attack may be a family dispute.”
Sergei Morozov, a member of parliament and former governor of the region, told the Ria Novosti news agency that a kindergarten teacher and two children, born in 2016 and 2018, were dead.
The Telegram Bazaar, which is famous for its connections with the security forces, reported that the man entered the school at the time of the students’ rest, armed with a shotgun.
At one time, deadly armed attacks, especially on schools, have been on the rise in Russia in recent years to the point where President Vladimir Putin has expressed concern that it is a US-led phenomenon and a perverted result of globalization. led to the tightening of gun ownership legislation.
SOURCE: AMPE
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