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Moscow shooting: School gunman held after killing two Moscow school shooting: Student held after killing two
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A student who entered a Moscow secondary school and took more than 20 people hostage has been arrested, Moscow police say. An armed student who entered a school in Moscow and shot dead two adults before taking more than 20 teenagers hostage has been arrested.
He killed one police officer and one teacher, police said. Another policeman was shot and injured. Police said the student had killed one officer and a teacher. Another policeman was shot and injured.
The hostages the gunman took have been released, police said. The hostages were freed after the student's father went in to the school.
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. Russian President Vladimir Putin has described the incident as "tragic", while Moscow's mayor called for a review of school security.
The gunman is said to be a pupil at School No 263 on the northern outskirts of Moscow. In comments at a meeting with theatre workers in the city of Psokov, Mr suggested improved arts education could help prevent such incidents.
He was armed with two rifles belonging to his father. "A new generation of spectators with good artistic taste should be brought up - capable of understanding and appreciating theatrical, dramatic and musical arts," he said.
A school security guard was unable to stop him from entering, but managed to hit an alarm before following him to his classroom, the spokesman for Russia's main investigative agency said, quoted by the Associated Press news agency. "Had we been doing this properly, maybe there would have been no tragedies similar to today's tragedy in Moscow."
The student shot dead a geography teacher and opened fire on police officers who responded to the alarm, wounding one and killing another, a spokesman for the Investigative Committee said in a statement. 'Breakdown'
He then took more than 20 people hostage in a classroom. The gunman was a pupil at School No 263 on the northern outskirts of Moscow.
He fired at least 11 times from a small-calibre rifle, the spokesman is quoted as saying by Russian news agencies. Russian investigators named him as Sergei Gordeyev, and said he was an excellent student who appeared to have had an "emotional breakdown".
The boy was an excellent student and apparently had an emotional breakdown, the spokesman said. He was armed with two rifles legally owned by his father.
His father was called to the school; wearing a bullet-proof vest, he went into the building to speak to his son. Vladimir Markin, a spokesman for Russia's main investigative agency, said a school security guard had been unable to stop Gordeyev from entering the school when he arrived carrying the weapons.
The hostages were freed unharmed. But the guard did manage to hit an alarm before following the student to his classroom, he said.
Gordeyev shot dead a geography teacher before locking more than 20 10th grade students - aged about 15 - inside a classroom.
He then fired at least 11 shots at police officers who had responded to the alarm, wounding one and killing another, Mr Markin said, in the statement quoted by Russian news agencies.
The stand-off was resolved when the student's father was called to the school; wearing a bullet-proof vest, he went into the building to speak to his son.
The hostages were freed unharmed and all children and teachers were evacuated from the school.
Soon after, the student was disarmed and taken into custody.Soon after, the student was disarmed and taken into custody.
All children and teachers were evacuated from the school after the incident. Moscow's Mayor Vladimir Kolokoltsev said he had "made a decision to conduct a complete review of how our school security system is working, and to take additional steps".
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. The BBC's Steve Rosenberg in Moscow says school shootings are incredibly rare in Russia.
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. In the worst ever such incident, Chechen separatists took over a school in Beslan, North Ossetia, holding more than 1,000 people hostage. More than 300 people, mostly children, were killed as security forces stormed the school to end the siege.
The latest incident comes amid heightened security across Russia as the country prepares to host the Winter Olympics in Sochi, in the far south, next week.
Last month, 34 people were killed in two bomb attacks in the southern city of Volgograd. That incident was blamed on Islamist militants based in the Caucasus republics of Dagestan.