At least 8 people died and others, probably 7, were injured in a shooting inside thePerm university, in the Ural area, 1300 kilometers east of Moscow. A student opened fire on classmates and professors. There are conflicting reports on the fate of the 18-year-old: according to some he was killed by the police, even if at first the news of his arrest spread, for others he would be in hospital, injured.
a video finished on social media tells the panic when the shooting began.
Many students tried to escape by jumping from classroom windows. This is seen in the pictures with boys on the run. Other boys barricaded themselves in the classrooms.
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The Russian Investigation Commission, which investigates the most serious crimes in the country, has identified the killer as a student. The boy was called Timur Bekmansurov, 18, enrolled in the first year of law.
The student, according to the information site 59.ru, allegedly left a post on Facebook. “It wasn’t a terrorist attack. I am not a member of extremist organizations. Nobody knew what I was going to do. I organized everything by myself », is the text reported by Republic. Bekmamsurov defines himself as a person overwhelmed by hatred. “I hate myself, but I want to hurt everyone who gets in my way.” The police are still looking for accomplices and are investigating even if it is clear that the boy had been planning the attack for some time.
It is not the first shooting in Russia. In a Kazan school there was one at the beginning of 2021. 9 people lost their lives. After this massacre, a law was made, not yet in force, to move the minimum age for purchasing weapons from 18 to 21 years. The rules are already more restrictive than in the US, but there are some types of pistols and rifles that are easily purchased for hunting and self-defense. Bermansurov had such a pistol in the images of his entrance to the University. The Russian president Vladimir Putin he sent his deep condolences to the families and friends of the people killed in the Perm University shooting.
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