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| Moscow school shooting: Armed student kills police officer and teacher and takes class hostage, say police | |
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| A Moscow high school student shot a teacher and a police officer dead and held more than 20 other students hostage in a classroom on Monday before he was disarmed and detained, police said. | |
| In a rare school shooting in Russia, the attacker entered his school in northern Moscow carrying a rifle and held students and a teacher hostage in a biology classroom, police in the capital said. | In a rare school shooting in Russia, the attacker entered his school in northern Moscow carrying a rifle and held students and a teacher hostage in a biology classroom, police in the capital said. |
| Police later said the attacker had been detained and had been led out of the school and into a waiting car. According to the Lifenews website, he initially shot one officer and then opened fire at others who arrived at the scene. | Police later said the attacker had been detained and had been led out of the school and into a waiting car. According to the Lifenews website, he initially shot one officer and then opened fire at others who arrived at the scene. |
| "The person who took 20 people and a teacher hostage is a student in the upper classes at the same school. He has been neutralised and all the students have been freed," Interior Ministry spokesman Andrei Pilipchuk 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. He has been neutralised and all the students have been freed," Interior Ministry spokesman Andrei Pilipchuk said on state TV. |
| "One policeman was fatally wounded during the operation and died in hospital, and a teacher at School No. 263 was also killed," 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 said. |
| The shooting sent dozens of students scurrying out the school while a police helicopter landed in a snow-covered field outside. | The shooting sent dozens of students scurrying out the school while a police helicopter landed in a snow-covered field outside. |
| It came with Russia in the global spotlight four days before it hosts the 2014 Winter Olympics in the Black Sea resort city of Sochi. | It came with Russia in the global spotlight four days before it hosts the 2014 Winter Olympics in the Black Sea resort city of Sochi. |
| Reuters | Reuters |