MOSCOW, Oct 13 (NNN-AGENCIES) — A gunman opened fired at a bus and a bus stop in central Russia on Monday, killing three people and wounding three more, police said.
The shooting took place in a village in the Nizhny Novgorod region located around 400 kilometers east of Moscow. Police said the man escaped and urged local residents to be cautious since he was armed. A major manhunt was underway and a murder investigation was launched.
The motive for the shooting hasn’t been revealed, but Russian authorities haven’t indicated the shooting was terror-related.
Three men died and three women were hospitalized with gunshot wounds, according to Russia’s Investigative Committee. Local officials said two of them were in extremely grave condition.
Some media reports said the assailant wasn’t aiming at the bus, but rather fired random shots at people at the bus stop.
“The citizen was shooting in a chaotic manner,” TASS news agency quoted a source from the press service of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for the region as saying.
The shooter has not yet been identified. Police officers are carrying out a range of operational search measures to find whoever is responsible, TASS reported.
“If necessary, the victims will be evacuated to regional medical centers. We are ready to use air ambulances at any time,” Governor of the region Gleb Nikitin was quoted by RIA Novosti news agency as saying. — NNN-AGENCIES
