breaking news. at least. 7 children. trooping at a school in the russian city of. 20. some of them critically. the 19 year old suspect. he had a very intelligent. i've never seen him with people she was

a very quiet guy he was a good boy and. i don't know why he became like nice i would never have. the russian the human rights commission. with. the program here on the international. breaking news. at least 9 people including 7 children have been killed 21 others injured in a shooting at a school in the city i should warn you you may find some of the following.

i'm. sure that. you're only. going to publish a little. i don't know i don't. think . you know what. the postal city is i woke up abruptly from the explosion and the sound of breaking glass from my balcony i saw the windows of the school blown out soar children fleeing apparently the teachers began to evacuate them through the windows someone was jumping from one window i also heard the muffled sounds of gunfire i think all of these images were captured by local residents so there are some more shocking

scenes coming up of people's can be seen jumping out of windows to escape the shooter and some made the leap from the 3rd floor and tragically 2 of them died of their injuries but the russian human rights commission has now proposed raising the age for owning a firearm license from 18 to 21 and this comes as regional officials have been carrying out a comprehensive check of all gun owners a bit earlier in the day i was joined here in the studio about cesar daniel hawkins who gave full details of this tragic breaking news. this will go down as one of the darkest days in the modern history of of the republic of tatarstan the ins that began just before 10 am local time initially there were reports perhaps of multiple shooters entering the school number 175 japanese in the 175 quickly it emerged the attacker was acting alone a 19 year old who's now been detained by police and remains in the custody of security forces there were reports by witness accounts of explosions at least one

explosion taking place in the school and gunfire throughout the building children rushed to escape teachers rushed to evacuate the victims many of them did manage to get out through the lower floors many of them who were trapped on the upper floors of the gunman roam the corridor decided to try and jump to escape death and that's testament to the horror of the panic that must have been going on inside the building at the time. we spoke to one eyewitness who was near the school and heard and saw some of what took place there just hours ago around town of 15 minutes before the end of the 2nd lesson scream and was heard on the street and after that loud sounds were heard most likely there were shots about a minute after that a sound system in the classroom announced that teachers and students should remain in room and not go out lock the door and put 3 desks and chairs in front of it after that everyone said down near the wall and said quietly given this shots and

explosions were constantly heard even with the windows and doors closed i could smell gunpowder then the special forces and ambulances arrived we were greeted him they tried to open the door and called us so we opened it and the police were standing dear so we left the school several people were killed on the floor. and it was the gay shit is of course launched it is underway security services are looking into all positive motives for the attack that's understood the gunman reference stuff like he's a god there's a monster within him he's trying to clear humanity of birth and darkness indicative really of some sort of mental breakdown mental health issues that of course is going to be proved or disproved following a psychiatric evaluation in coming days and weeks in the meantime of the families of the victims will become of the times with what exactly has happened today and as we are going to be a day of mourning tomorrow and tossed around as well what do you know so far i know

you've been following all the developments here what can you tell us about the weapons that were used while russia was in the country you'd normally associate with mass shootings and school shootings especially gun control laws here are pretty tight perhaps not of fighters in the u.k. some european states certainly more strict than in the united states were. school shootings happened tragically fairly regularly we do know he was in possession of a hot sun escort shotgun it's a weapon that can cause a lot of damaged in the right in the wrong hands rather especially in close quarters like a school with corridors classrooms children packed closely together. this was obtained legally according to the information we have. you visited a local gun club and prior to this shooting you board 150 rounds of ammunition seemingly in preparation for the terrible act he was about to commit. the questions are going to be asked. how you managed to get out of this weapon why were mental

health concerns not addressed if indeed there were any certainly among friends among neighbors among those who knew him there was no out was signs that the boy your the old michael was about to commit such an atrocity this is what his neighbors in fact had to say about it because we met this boy before he's our neighbor and i remember his face i noticed that he had a very intelligent appearance he was a very tidy i've never seen him heading out with any dubious people he was a very quiet guy and i always saw him over himself not with friends not with a girl he was a good boy and i was always so quiet he also held me in the past with a tassel language i don't know why he became like this i don't know what happened to him i would never have thought it was here in. a very good and well mannered family i only had a good at being in of him all these descriptions certainly don't match the

individual that was responsible for the events at school number 175 today so often they don't know so often people do say of people who commit such heinous acts they were quiet they were normal they were quiet and seemingly this fits the pattern we do know this was his for school from 0 to graduate that around 4 years ago he was recently expelled from university for what reason we're not sure but he stopped attending lectures stop socializing but again these problems were perhaps faced by many people's many shootings many youngsters facing some sort of mental health issues throughout russia. by far not everyone the tiniest minority go on to commit violent acts especially on such a scale it will be done as i say to investigators and psychiatrist to see where things went wrong and how this could have taken place what can you walk can you tell us about the injured survivors. figures have been going up tragically throughout the day initially it was around 6 fatalities the latest figure is 9

casualties 8 children and one teacher 21 already in hospital 13 of them are in stable condition 6 of them are in critical condition being operated on their hands are at their fate rather is in the hands of the medics doctors now in theatre a lot of you putin has expressed his condolences there is a plane either being prepared already on the way with specialist children doctors and especially more important in the long run mental health specialists who are going to be offering their support to the victims the families of the victims especially over the coming weeks as they seek answers and come to terms with what has happened here today the victims are raising between 7 and 19 the average age is about 14 to 15 music children. it's hard to think what went on in that school and what the parents must be going through right now. or video of the school evacuation has been released we should warn you there are some harrowing images of young

children could being seen gathering on the grass some severely injured right after the shooting a teacher described what he saw. as for the club he i was in the class on the 2nd floor we heard bangs that sounded like explosions 1st we closed the classroom doors and did not let the children get near the windows we told them to sit down along the walls and try to calm them down and then the special forces did a great job they went around the school we open the doors let them in and they let us out in an organized manner we were taken out through the corridor there was a bit of smoke we quickly got out of the school grounds things had always been calm at the school friendly staff good relations with the children this is all a terrible shock to us but we discussed the implications of today's tragedy in cars and with a number of guests. it differs so much from country to country you know if we look at the united states in some states you don't need any checks whatsoever before people can buy a firearm and almost semiautomatic firearms through

a supermarket as you come to the united kingdom which is some of the most restrictive firearms laws where you will have background checks criminal record checks and your doctor will be to sign the firearms certificate application to make sure that there are no mental health conditions and you get everything in between exactly what the russian rules are i don't know but listening to the commentary that's coming out from moscow and from what president putin is saying they have got checks in place and it's making sure that those checks could cover this eventuality however no matter how hard you check you're never going to be able to cover every eventuality what was it that motivated the individual copycat attack possibly but only if the individual was following what was going on or reading lots about it and everything else copycat attacks tend to happen within the days weeks and months after a major incident so it's the police will be trying to do the got the individual

secure it worked what his motivation was behind carrying out the attack and then trying to identify if there's any way that they could have put mechanisms in place or could still put mechanisms in place to transfer those motivations happening elsewhere and of course they will not be alert for other people potentially carrying out a copycat attacks in other parts of russia and the russian police counter-terror police or the quick reaction like this are are very highly trained they know that that confusion comes in so they go into a series of drills and then start to look at the information that they've got. you know if you get 3 reports from 3 different people saying they've heard 3 different shooting incidents from 3 different parts of the school lot of money. there's 10 potentially 3 different shooters there until they narrow that information on themselves and they know that this happens and that's part of the way they will approach dealing with the situation and yes it could have an impact on how quickly

you can get medical services in it could have an impact on how many police are needed before they'll go on look at potentially assaulting buildings and all the rest of it but one of the 1st things that any security organization will do as it's going in to this is to confirm confirm what's going on clear the area of incidents cordon it off control what's going on and then react to what it is up there getting the assume the worst they'll deal with it in a very professional way as professional as they can and then go through a series of drills you little practice this time after time after time and certainly after the best attack in 2004 and the kurdish attack and 28 teen the russian police. and their acquitted of the swat teams up we've seen going in here will have practiced this again and again again against these different scenarios and against other scenarios the theme here frighteningly seems to be schools again you know you don't associate russia with these this type of incident we tend to

think well the united states. does tend to be one individual in the room but it shows you that. when this incident happened the information of comes out and misinformation you know we have to be very careful and i think it's quite right to look at what's inspired this individual to go on. to live and it doesn't matter what the causes of me if you will think it is it or it's that's we look at call it political calls was it a religious inspired cause and so on moves that legislation globally in defining to terrorism have a very very similar legal definitions and that's what the investigators will work for because he certainly of what you do with the 4 people. it was a man who went into a school or avenues to explore as regards the cause the motive behind this. you know and it's a difficult one for the investigations to china since i mean what they will no doubt do is look at any other time devices or anything in this this individual's

possession and child see what the motives are you know because we have many causes though because this can be hardly fully investigated russia is a european country and i research fortunately it's very rare that we see this of the you know that our title controls with because most european states if you will always serve fine complete chaos whenever a terrorist attack or an incident like this happens and it's just then a matter of trying to do authorities trying to gain some control you mentioned earlier about social media and the impact that has of course many years ago you'd never have that problem but now what we have is is more people coming to the scene because they've been told by their sons and daughters that this is going on to protect their children and of course that just aids adds to the confusion the more people that come in the more chaos that's caused and the more people they can kill and you know that social media has a number of great benefits but some when you've got an ongoing crisis like this

what you want people to do is clear out the way and get our way as possible not to add to the confusion and of course become more targets and more people to interfere with the policing operation but schools are continuously being targeted now just a couple of days ago in kabul a school for that young girls were were were were low just girls in a school in couple were killed in a terrorist attack so schools really need to make sure that they have plans in place as well and the more guns you have in a society the more like you know you are to have these kind of incidents and of course we've got an awful lot of people with mental illness of one form or another or they have extreme views and if you give these people guns you've got to expect at some stage that things are going to go wrong so you know the less comes in society that the safer we. it's no secret that you go on the internet you can find out what to do and how to do it and this is a this is a problem for all societies and that's why i say before the less guns you have the less likely thirds that these sort of incidents are going to take place because of

course we we have an awful lot of people a with mental illness but also a lot of radicalized individuals as well who might want to go out into what they see as a blaze of glory if it is that radicalized individual has done this then you know you there is big issues across the world with that with that problem if it's an individual it's just a strain of what we've been going off and decided to kill people then of course yes you could have other people as you call it copycatting so policing have to deal with this but i think what should come from this really is to schools colleges universities understand that they have a you know they have things to do to make sure that their pupils are safe from this point attack yes you can you can bring in security you can you can conduct searches you can do all these things but universities schools and campuses are meant to be open there meant to be inviting for their people so it's an almost impossible situation to protect and of course then you've got other sites as well that are

just as easily you know so so this is a real difficult problem and in my opinion the only way to deal with that is trying to reduce the number of guns but in the mean time people need to have a understanding on how they should react personally i think the problem. the social problem is child and adolescent mental health and that in i think all countries to be sure that it is lacking in considerable degree not all show signs of potential. truly outcomes like this will someday. and in many cases those symptoms are on addressed and certainly not addressed us for all is possible and so if you have a focus someone playing it. i. was probably the pro se significant control of far all. we are continuing our breaking news coverage here on r.t. international finally. has arrived at the school where the shooting happened

today can you give us an update please mota. well the situation here is as you would unfortunately expect people are absolutely crushed devastated this isn't something you can ever prepare yourself for a 1000 kids went to this school by hiding me and all of them said hundreds and hundreds of children were looked in these classrooms looked in the tarot and fear many of them hadn't heard a gunshot before in their life and for a child that easy a scary experience and here you had teachers who knew what to do they have barricaded the doors when the bangs in the shots began they got the kids away from

the windows way from the doors and refused to open them up we've heard reports from you know the survivors they they described how somebody would bang on the door demanding to know who was inside. sometimes he would move along sometimes he would keep banging and we we've heard reports of how some opened the door and one such class room for example. that is where many of the fatal if he said that the floor was lined with bodies obviously we can't show you the the pictures but everybody here has seen them all the loopholes old all the parents and this is something that is absolutely terrifying and here we have all manner of agencies now trying to figure out what exactly happened and how this was allowed to happen we heard before of course from other correspondents about the forearm being bored by the suspect very recently in april with a valid license that he possible manner of checks

a psychiatric evaluation drug test a background check a medical evaluation and he was able to he was able to get that gun as well as hundreds of rounds of ammunition and he was able to still new school there obviously many questions about how someone. he's stated mental health issue of video of an interrogation with him where he appeared and said ranting about being a god and there being a monster inside him in there a lot of questions being asked to have this man was given a green take a remark and on his psychiatric evaluation obviously we've also heard the stories the kids stories that have come out of this school today. i was in the class on the 2nd floor we heard bangs sounded like explosions 1st we closed the caution doors and did not let the children get near the windows we told them to sit down along the walls and try to calm them down and then the special

forces did a great job they went around the school we open the doors let them in and they let us out in an organized manner we were taken out through the chordal there was a piece of smoke we quickly got out of the school grounds things that always been common to school friendly staff good relations with the children this is all a terrible shock to us now one of the more fortunate tons of events there is that the security were a teacher somebody managed to press the panic button and that in turn resulted in law enforcement special squads arriving here very very quickly the the number of dead could have been much higher the number of injured could have been much higher many of the children by the way they they were injured not because of gunshots who were exclusions reportedly the shooter planted 2 improvised explosive devices many

of the kids would jumping from windows 3 stories up in a bid to to get away so many of the injuries and traumas. broken legs and broken broken backs even we've also heard from medics here that many of the kids there they're going to need counseling they're going to need a lot of help psychiatric help they're catatonic in shock some of the kids so there are a lot of questions to once and many many answers that people want to hear parents want to hear especially why or why this this shooter who apparently walked for 12 minutes from his apartment to this school in in full dress in fatigues and carrying a shotgun shotgun why he wasn't arrested why wasn't apprehended and why no one called police to report him. all right on to what i've. just outside the school of the scene of the mass shooting today might have thank

you and i we can now show you the official list of those who were injured in the shooting but survived there are 21 of them the 2 adults and 18 children girls and boys teenagers kids as young as 7 and we understand several of them are in intensive care in a serious condition we'll bring up some more pictures for you now here on our international images were captured by local residents and there are some more shocking scenes coming up people peoples can be seen as what i was saying jumping out of the windows to escape the gunman some made the leap from the 3rd floor and tragically 2 of them died of their injuries. should that be. your only. hit on your

part was the little. i got i don't. know all. the possible scenarios i woke up abruptly from the explosion and the sound of breaking glass from my balcony i saw the windows of the school blown out sore children fleeing apparently the teachers began to evacuate them through the windows someone was jumping from one window i also heard the muffled sounds of gunfire i think. well a plane carrying the russian health minister together with medics and psychologists . they will 1st head to the hospital where survivors of the shooting are now being treated. well this is. for sharing your time with us here let's give you a full recap now of what happened today. at least 9 people including 7 children have been killed and 21 others injured in a mass shooting at

a school that's according to the press service. republic which is the capital city is located around 100 kilometers east of moscow the suspect has been arrested and is said to be a. pupil who according to reports had a pump action shotgun registered in his name russian president vladimir putin. the country's gun control laws in the wake of the tragedy and all schools in that region will undergo inspections and have their security beefed up we'll have more on the story shortly here on r.t. international if you missed anything on always catch it online. at. 24 so.

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