MOSCOW, Sept 16 (NNN-AGENCIES) — A teenage student wounded four people with a hammer on Monday at a school in the southern Russian city of Chelyabinsk, near the border with Kazakhstan, local authorities said.
The 13-year-old boy attacked teachers and fellow students before he was stopped, province governor Aleksey Teksler wrote on X.
Two 13-year-old girls, one boy and a teacher were injured and admitted to hospital, the local health ministry said.
The suspect was also carrying a knife and a gun, according to a police source cited by the Russian news agency RIA Novosti.
His motives were not immediately clear.
“How could a student get into the school with a hammer and why didn’t security guards respond?” Teksler asked on X.
He said he had ordered security protocols to be reviewed at every school in the region.
A probe has been launched into “planned murder” and “neglect”, said the Investigative Committee of Russia, which is responsible for the country’s biggest investigations.
Armed school attacks in Russia, once a rarity, have been reported in recent years.
President Vladimir Putin has called them an import from the United States and blamed globalisation.
He has tightened gun ownership law.
A 14-year-old girl opened fire at a school in the southwestern city of Bryansk in December 2023, killing a classmate before taking her own life.
A separate shooting in Ijevsk in central Russia in September 2022 left 18 dead.
Nine people were killed by a 21-year-old attacker at a school in Kazan in the Russian republic of Tatarstan in 2021. — NNN-AGENCIES
