Students and teacher killed in Russian school shooting

Twelve other children and four adults were taken to hospital after the attack, Mr Minnikhanov said.

Ambulances and police cars and a truck are parked at a school after a shooting in Kazan, Russia, Tuesday, May 11, 2021. Picture: AP Photo/Roman Kruchinin

A gunman has attacked a school in the Russian city of Kazan, killing eight people – seven students and a teacher – and leaving 21 other people in hospital, officials said.

Rustam Minnikhanov, governor of the Tatarstan republic where Kazan is the capital, said four male and three female eighth-grade students died in the shooting.