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| Moscow shooting: School gunman held after killing two | Moscow shooting: School gunman held after killing two |
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| A student who entered a Moscow secondary school and took more than 20 fellow pupils hostage has been arrested, Moscow police say. | A student who entered a Moscow secondary school and took more than 20 fellow pupils hostage has been arrested, Moscow police say. |
| The gunman killed one police officer and one biology teacher, police said. Another policeman was shot and injured. | The gunman killed one police officer and one biology teacher, police said. Another policeman was shot and injured. |
| The hostages the gunman took have been released, police said. | The hostages the gunman took have been released, police said. |
| The incident, on the outskirts of the Russian capital, comes as Russia prepares to host the Winter Olympic Games, due to start in Sochi this week. | The incident, on the outskirts of the Russian capital, comes as Russia prepares to host the Winter Olympic Games, due to start in Sochi this week. |
| The gunman is said to be a pupil at School No 263 on the northern outskirts of Moscow. | |
| "The person who took 20 people and a teacher hostage is a student in the upper classes at the same school," an interior ministry spokesman said on state TV. | "The person who took 20 people and a teacher hostage is a student in the upper classes at the same school," an interior ministry spokesman said on state TV. |
| "He has been neutralised and all the students have been freed," he said. | "He has been neutralised and all the students have been freed," he said. |
| "One policeman was fatally wounded during the operation and died in hospital, and a teacher at School No 263 was also killed," he added. | |
| It is not clear how the teacher and the policeman died. | It is not clear how the teacher and the policeman died. |
| A school official told Russian television that all children and teachers had been evacuated from the school after the incident. | A school official told Russian television that all children and teachers had been evacuated from the school after the incident. |
| The gunman opened fire on police officers who arrived at the scene, reports say. | The gunman opened fire on police officers who arrived at the scene, reports say. |
| He had made no demands, reports say. | He had made no demands, reports say. |
| There is relief that the standoff is over and that all the students have been released unharmed, says the BBC's Steven Rosenberg at the scene. | |
| Shooting incidents are rare at Russian schools, which is why there is a sense of shock that a teacher and a policeman have been killed, our correspondent adds. |