Russia taking wounded from deadly school shooting to Moscow

Medical staff carry an injured person on a stretcher at the emergency department of the First Republican Clinical hospital to evacuate to Moscow, in Izhevsk, Russia, Tuesday, Sept. 27, 2022. The plane of the Ministry of Emergency Situations will deliver victims of the shooting at school No. 88 in Izhevsk to Moscow hospitals. This was stated by the Presidential Commissioner for Children’s Rights Maria Lvova-Belova. According to officials, 11 children were among those killed in the Monday morning shooting in School No. 88 in Izhevsk, a city 960 kilometers (600 miles) east of Moscow. (AP Photo/Dmitry Serebryakov)

More than a dozen people wounded in a school shooting in central Russia will be taken to Moscow for further treatment, authorities said, a day after a gunman killed 17 people and wounded 24 others.

Health minister Mikhail Murashko said a medical evacuation is planned for 13 children and two adults. He said three are in critical condition.