At least three people died this Thursday in a shooting in the city of Krymsklocated in the Russian region of Krasnodarin the southwest of the country, according to official sources have advanced to the news agency TASS.
For the moment, sources familiar with the matter have indicated that the shooter, who has also died, would have shot at three peoplealthough it is not ruled out that as the investigations progress, new victims will be discovered.
The prosecution regional office, together with a public prosecutor Crimeahave initiated the corresponding procedures to find the “causes and conditions” of the event.
Russian authorities say a armed man opened fire fatally wounding three people and then committed suicide.
The violence took place in the city of Krymsk in the Krasnodar region, some 1,200 kilometers to the south of Moscow.
Alexander Runova spokesman for the regional interior ministry, said the gunman shot two employees at a local shopping center and then went outside, shooting at passers-by, killing one of them, according to the state news agency. Tass. Another person was injured.
Runov was quoted as saying that tensions over the divorce of the gunman could be behind the shooting.
A wave of violence has broken out in several cities in Russia, recently at least 15 people were killed, including 11 children, after a gunman opened fire at a school in the city of Izhevskin the center of Russia, in an attack that the Russian president, Vladimir Putindescribed as an “inhuman terrorist act.”
The attack was the latest in a series of school shootings that have rocked Russia in recent years and came with the country nervous about efforts to mobilize tens of thousands of men to fight in Ukraine.
The Russian Investigative Committee identified the attacker as Artyom Kazantsev34, graduated from the same school, and authorities said he was wearing a black T-shirt with “Nazi Symbols”.
The Committee, which gradually raised the number of victims, reported that 15 people, including 11 childrendied in the shooting, and 24 other people, including 22 children, were injured in the attack.
According to the researchers, “She was wearing a black top with Nazi symbols on it and a ski mask. He is a former student of the center born in 1988, they specified in another statement. “We are checking if he was close to neo-fascist positions and Nazi ideology,” the source said.
The governor of the region, Alexander Brechalov, confirmed that there was “casualties and wounded among the children”, speaking in a video statement outside school No88 in Izhevsk.
(With information from Europa Press and AP)
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