Gunman with swastika on T-shirt kills 15 at Russian school

A gunman with a swastika on his T-shirt has killed 15 people, including 11 children, and wounded 24 at a school in Russia, investigators have said.

The attacker, a man in his early thirties who was named by authorities as Artem Kazantsev, killed two security guards then opened fire on students and teachers at School Number 88 in Izhevsk, where he had once been a pupil. He then killed himself.

The investigative committee said that of the 24 people wounded, all but two were children. The regional governor, Alexander Brechalov, said surgeons had carried out a number of operations.

Russia has experienced several school shootings in recent years.

In May 2021, a teenage gunman killed seven children and two adults in the city of Kazan. In September last year, a student armed with a hunting rifle shot dead at least six people at a university in the Urals city of Perm.

In April 2022, an armed man killed two children and a teacher at a kindergarten in the central Ulyanovsk region before committing suicide.

In 2018, an 18-year-old student killed 20 people, mostly fellow pupils, in a mass shooting at a college in Russian-occupied Crimea, which Moscow seized from Ukraine in 2014.