a though that no one is under the rubble of those under the rubble have been. recovered that's what we know. the local media did speak to students at the college she recalled their experiences . first there was an explosion in the contini right after that people with john stars run out of the bathrooms they had masks on their faces it wasn't possible to see what their nationalities were they were so many of them i can't say exactly how many they shot at students and teachers everyone who got on their way they also threw backs of explosives. i don't know what's happening now we

were outside talking to our friends and heard an explosion windows got chattered we started running jumping over the fence i don't know whether it was an explosion but it was very loud where an as far as we could that's all i know russia's anti terror committee has also issued a statement it says that today at approximately midday in the city of curch in the combine crimean republic there was an explosion of the polytechnic college there head of the national anti terror committees operational office says the special forces are now at the scene a manhunt is under way and the territory near the college has been cordoned off and the evacuation inside the building is over we are told the injured are being taken to a medical facilities although we also know that some will be airlifted to hospitals around russia including moscow the anti terror committees operational offices coordinating law enforcement and they are also trying to establish the reason for the explosion although we know now that it is being treated as

a terror attack they're also working to prevent further explosions of an extremely situation serious situation in crimea today a tragedy. on a great scale thirteen students teenagers we're told have been killed by an explosion. unconfirmed reports there was a second explosion too and also reports that gunmen were inside the building and shot students. teachers the russian vessel investigative committee regards the situation as my saying there in crimea as a terrorist attack. some committed them received the russian investigation committee has launched a criminal case of or the situation at kurdish college this is being regarded as an act of terror according to preliminary information today in a canteen of the local technical college an improvised devised filled with metal objects exploded information about injured will go. need to be updated the majority

of them are teenagers. ok what's more information security measures have been intensified in crimea the military helping to evacuate the injury from the scene of the blast as we mentioned thirteen people have been confirmed killed and up to seventy people have been injured the majority of them teenage students so you who were there studying at the college the number of dead is expected to rise it's a very small we're told of the injuries forty people have already been taken to hospital stick led three days of mourning in russia investigative committee has called the explosion and that terrorism as we've confirmed according to them explosion happened in the college's canteen and the device was filled with metal objects about fifteen people reported missing at the moment it's not clear on their status we know that the building was evacuated we hope that those students a safe but at the moment that is still unclear with all the students remaining

students have been sent home and the territory is still in lockdown all student organizations have been closed to explosive experts are also working at the scene so they planned to go directly to the sense of where this explosion occurred but we do know what happened in the canteen of this ten colleges around midday local time which is around three hours ago investigators have started to question witnesses to we've heard from a number of them and they're also looking at video from surveillance cameras witnesses talking about the shooter was about twenty years old and had a rifle we've also heard reports which you say there was more than one gunman so you say conflicting reports but this is what we know no suspects have been arrested in fact the manhunt is still underway the explosion as we said happened at about midday and it was first reported as a gas explosion but it became evident pretty quickly that that wasn't. so it does

appear to be a terror attack i believe gladly putin has ordered the injury to be taken to russia's best hospitals treatment including moscow but also including in crimea russia's antiterrorism committees operation headquarters are coordinating actions to prevent further explosions we're told are still great concern. in crimea at the moment about safety and security risk an r.t. crew also which is say is heading to the saying these are pictures we've received from local t.v. networks we got them pretty quickly also within about i would say half an hour forty minutes of this news coming into these pictures of the scene shortly after that blast you can see the. emergency services helping people in the ambulance. it's ok we're watching our rolling coverage of this terror attack it seems in crimea which has killed at least thirteen students all of them teenagers are now

joined by a question of are also in the studio on this tragic day but let's just bring you a bit of information about the college. because just over a thousand students are studying in that college with some seventy three members of staff working there we're told. now it is indeed rather all the building up the college here was founded in the in nine hundred thirty s. it is actually one of the alders colleges in the city and over the years some twenty thousand students have graduated from it now and next year over four hundred students are due to enrol there now we do expect to hear from the russian president vladimir putin very soon he's at the moment in the russian thirty upside she where he is holding negotiations. here is a spokesman from a tree pascal has commented it's under situation. the man for

information about the number of casualties has been handled the president offered deep condolences to those who lost their relatives the president has ordered the emergency services to undertake merging actions to assure the urgent transportation of the injured to the country's best hospitals the president has ordered the security services to undertake measures to stablish the cause of the incident we're waiting for that information would r.c.m.p. if. you know we heard a very quick response coming from the kremlin right after the first news the first the first new sound this attack broke and we heard from the kremlin's office and the russian president expressed condolences and now we do expect to hear his address to the nation as regards to what's happening at the scene right now special forces there as you would imagine security measures have been intensified in crimea the military of. from the city of the blast we also know explosive experts heading

there. to see what they can glean from the sites let's just update people though. on the casualties thirteen people have been confirmed. up to seventy eight of those killed we know that. now if we talk about the situation in the city itself now we do know that all advocation institutions have been closed we know that police is at the kitchen gardens across the city and now parents were asked to take their children back home now and the situation is of course very tense in the city of courage we even heard some reports that transportation system has been heartbeat seized within the city now the number of dads it is at the moment thirteen people but it is unfortunately expected to rise due to the severity of the injuries forty people have already been taken to hospital crimea has

declared three days of mourning russia's investigative committee has called the explosion an act of terrorism and according to them the explosion happened in the colleges canteen and the device was filled with metal objects we're talking about shrapnel of course and it's a very it's a dad lee deadly thing sure no surprise when you hear that. the injuries that have been sustained. and that's why there's great concern the death valley could rawya food people have been treated. have been killed and it's feared that the deaths tally could potentially increase to fifteen people as we were saying earlier reported missing. on their status of course we hope that. they could be safe because the building was evacuated we're told in its entirety and also those under rubble initially have been recovered but it's still not clear and it's also extremely boring. for parents of those children who were in class

today of course and we just received information about the perpetrator of the attack now we just heard that before witnesses at the scene we're talking about the shooter was about twenty years old and had a rifle and now we're receiving reports that. this person a young person twenty years old. well that's not confirmed yet but he apparently according to the latest information killed himself. had been reports early information new information that's coming in to us but. initial reports that. it killed himself came from the head of crimea we have. a respectable source there but there have been reports too we were reading at witness accounts from students who say that there were many gunmen but. this one student that was speaking or near the canteen at the time of the first explosion said the explosion we heard the

explosion and then out of the rooms masked men ran and then started firing students and teachers so it's still unclear exactly what happened today but. is that we thought the thought that a twenty year old gunman who was involved we don't know whether he was the sole gunman involved or not but it appears that he has killed himself that's at least from the head of crimea but again now. we do receive very important at the moment you just mention we heard our crew at the scene talked to any number of witnesses a number of students coming out of the technical college where the attack took place and also just. heard an explosion and there was a witness who told us that there were actually two explosions and a lot of people heard intense gunfire we also talked to students who was she was there at the time of the attack and she didn't even know what was happening she

said that she was outside the building and heard an explosion i she saw the windows that got shattered so. she started running together with her friends and they even jumped over the fence of course there was a lot of fear and again the situation is very unclear at the moment so. just talking about the eyewitness accounts i mean we can read another one for you. there was an attendant to she described herself i think she was near an entrance to the building and she said the children were coming in by that everybody in on this soon as they will go through this is around me there was an explosion then there was the second one she says then people started coming downstairs saying the shots being followed. is what she told it was also said then men came out using the back door and she said it was easy for them to get through she said so i called an ambulance impressed. so another what unfolded

about. ten college. in the crimea which we just received a more information on the suspected culprit now he was sent here that he was actually at this. particular technical college where at the place and he was twenty two years old so it means the. he graduated from that particular college potentially. i have to say it is a little confusing to you because certainly heard i was a reporter so there was more than one gunman and they were masked and if you hear that it was perhaps a former student. i don't know. whether then you interpret that as being a coordinated attack perhaps a lone wolf is still unclear so we have to wait for more information to come out to be able to confirm. him but let's have a look at some of the latest pictures from the scene then. an evacuation operation

is underway in fact these a live pictures we're looking at of course the technical difficulties but still worth looking at these scenes from curch and we've just lost them so let's just return to those ones we've been showing to you just after the explosion from a local t.v. network emergency services there an update on the death toll thirteen dead all of them teenagers seventy. well you just told me that the situation remains very unclear and we've been receiving indeed conflicting reports and it does in a way look like the situation that happened in another russian city the city of perm they happened in winter this year and in january there was an attack in the school and at the time right after the attack there were a lot of reports that the students were saying that there were two men in masks with guns and there were attacking and there were shooting at the students and at

the teachers but then that that information was not confirmed so it's we should be very careful at that moment just to and not to jump to any conclusions and to be very careful with the information that we receive certainly the information. the cold the suspected culprit have been killed from the head of try me. again he's the suspected culprit the certainly. is a key. factor that's just come out within the last few minutes let's go back to some of the latest pictures that we've received where an evacuation operation is still underway. one of. the local media spoke to students at the college who recalled their

experiences. good. ok i think we can i go to those clips we've received of witness accounts from students. first there was an explosion in the contini right after that people with john starts run out of the bathrooms they had masks on their faces it wasn't possible to see what their nationalities were they were so many of them i can't say exactly how many they shot at students and teachers everyone who got on their way they also threw backs of explosives. i don't know what's happening now we were outside talking to our friends and heard an explosion windows got shattered we started running jumping over the fence i don't know whether it was an explosion but it was very loud where an as far as we could that's all i now all the word thought hundreds of students at that college today because in fact just over thousands are

studying there and there are also seventy three members of staff working there also it was found it is quite an old school back in the one nine hundred thirty s. one of the oldest colleges in the city in fact and over the years some twenty thousand students have graduated from it in fact next year ever four hundred students are due to enroll there too so many many students there today on this tragic day so let's just remind if you tune in it's suspected that there was a terror attack the technical college in kerching east in crimea thirteen people have been killed all of them teenage students we are told conflicting reports but we do know there was at least one explosion possibly two that appear that that happened in the canteen eyewitness accounts say that during that time or shortly afterwards masked men then ran out of bathrooms there and started firing at students and teachers that seems to be corroborated from the eyewitness accounts but since then we've also heard from the head of crimea that said that the

suspected culprit a twenty two year old he was a former students or was students of that college. has killed himself so it's unclear whether he was working alone at this stage or whether the room fact of the people involved going by those witness statements so that's what we know at the moment the entire area is still in lockdown the building was evacuated to we do know also that fifteen students are still missing it's unclear. what's happened to them let's just give you another eyewitness account a harrowing one two of what happened. do you really have no you was. no good no ball you use the really lazy boy who's a virgin what is the ideal think the family goes to the grove. ok let's just bring you more information the suspected killer. had killed himself he was twenty two

years old months old he was in the fourth he studies i think. and he was a citizen of to you some information coming out on the suspected culprit who appears to have killed him so shortly after the terror attack in which. well it does really remind me again of the one experience that i haven't we were reporting on the attack that took place this year in january and it does really no way looks like a particular attack that i'm talking about especially if we now with the all the reports that we keep receiving on the suspected culprit that he was a student of that particular college he was alone that he used a rifle that he was only twenty two years old so all that reminds me of a report that we made earlier again as they sat in january of this year when we

went to the russian city of perm there was an attack there on the school and first there were a lot of reports unconfirmed again the same situation that we see at this very moment to a man who were masked and they had guns and they attacked the school and were shooting. towards teachers and children and now it was a complete chaos but then it actually turned out that the attackers were the poorest students of that particular school and now they had a conflict with the teachers there. initial plan was not to attack the school but to attack the teacher but everything happened during. class it happened in our classroom full of children we're talking about four children and they tried to protect the teacher and it turned out into a complete block. do you know would also say that there are conflicting reports

that we received from today's apparent terror but again people have different accounts some people say it was one of the people used to go one explosion. it's a very confused situation listening to eyewitness account it's also difficult to work out exactly what has happened so you isn't it because there's always appears to be conflicting information of course it's true and that was the same case back that we were reporting on some random strange man that attacked the school but then it turned out that there were former schoolmates so if that particular institution and it might be the same case here and might not spill we need to be very careful not to jump into any early conclusions but again the situation is of course very complicated and we've again we've mentioned that before and we were warned that the death toll might unfortunately get

even higher and indeed that's the key said the moments now we've been we've just received information that eighteen people are confirmed to. be to be killed as a result of that particular attack and that figure can even. get higher. security measures have been intensified incrementally. reports to the ukrainian border security measures on the board with crimea so you following. and as you said. so you see. into the public had people dead as a result of this terror attack. while the military are there to vacuum from the scene of the blast. the majority of those factors or interests are

teenager or is this we're talking about a technical college where the attack took place the number that is expected to rise due to due to the severity of the injuries forty people have already been taking to hospital crimea has declared three days of mourning and russia's investigative committee has called the explosion an act of terrorism according to the explosion happened in the college just seen and the device was filled with objects about fifteen people are reported missing officials say that they are not under the rubble and all the students have been sent home old student organization school ost expose the facts very sorry now working on sites and some of the funds to go directly to the center of the explosion but the best to go to the source of the question witness who some of those we've heard. throughout the afternoon here and see they're also looking at video from surveillance cameras that were positioned

around the school to the technical college witnesses all talking about we understand he was about twenty years old and had a rifle. had been arrested although we should add there are reports from head to prime minister a credible source at the suspected culprit. killed himself and to the latest information that is coming from russia's antiterrorism committee the body of the suspected culprit has been found at the building college and according to preliminary reports he was a loner. and what he did. ok. i mean just a few moments ago we were reporting to you that. the those involved continues from what you just said. it's now of course it was a lone gunman a student who was in the fourth year of the study. college and he was also

a civilian living in. this suspected culprit killed himself. now we do expect to hear from the russian president any time soon as they said before he is that the moment in the russian city of thought she where he was planning to. hold to hold negotiations but at the moment we expect to hear the president's address to the nation in regards to what happened in the city of carriage. as you can see at the pictures that are on the screen there he is. he is with the egyptian president has held negotiations there but we do expect of course to hear something on the attack.

ok with these just i think we're just looking at live pictures there we were expecting comments from the russian president shortly and he starts to speak we'll go straight to the russian investigative committee meanwhile just got the situation in crimea as a terrorist act. gets them compete at the mercy of the russian investigation committee has launched a criminal case of or the situation at kurdish college this is being regarded as an act of terror according to preliminary information today in a canteen of the local technical college an improvised devised filled with metal objects exploded information about injured will continue to be updated the majority of them are teenagers. let me just give you some information on where exactly the attack took place the college is and the city of carious there you see it on the map which is located on the south end part of russia that happen iran may day a local time thirteen people are still reported missing officials say they were not

under the rubble and that's what we know so far. well the russian presidential spokesperson who's press corps has also been speaking about the tragic events today. for information about the number of casualties is being handled the president offered a deep condolences to those who lost their relatives the president has ordered the emergency services to undertake an urgent actions to assure the urgent transportation of the injured to the country's best hospitals the president has ordered the security services to undertake measures to stop list because of the.

and we're waiting for that information into your first. i mean one in january of this year at least fourteen. well as i told you before the situation is very conflicting and it's very complicated of course to report on what's happening in the city of carriage because not a very a lot of reports that we received were not confirmed again everything does in a way look like the case that we worked on and i personally poured it on that took place in another russian city the russian city of perm now in january of this year at least fourteen students and a teacher were injured in ny from page school in the city of perm teenagers who started that particular sold war inspired by the columbine high school massacre and i was again reporting on this earlier from this particular city

but now coming back what's happening now we can listen to the address. yes. i do. use i would like to say that. the russian city of kirkuk. saw a tragic event. as a result of an explosion of explosive device that has been prepared people have many wondered. if. you're but you would if. you were you should offer my condolences to the families of. those that were killed in the incident and hopes to you.

recover as soon as possible we will make sure that everything will be provided for their speediest recovery. and. that means. your fish that. we now know it's a crime. might do it here his motivation and the cause of this tragedy are being carefully studied. in the process but he's a good and we are working with the law enforcement. agencies and security services brief you on the results of the probe. i mean. friends. when the token should be.