translated from Spanish: Russian University Shooting Leaves 8 Dead and 24 Injured

At least eight people were killed and 24 injured during a shooting by a student on the campus of perm University in Russia.The attacker, identified as a law school student, was armed with a shotgun and a knife, and was wounded by police officers as he resisted. The attacker began to shoot as soon as he entered the campus,” said a witness and student from the University of Perm.Before opening fire on the university community, the assailant shot at several vehicles parked in the area. Several students jumped from the windows of the university building to safety from the shooting. “We locked ourselves in a classroom for an hour, we were about 60 people,” said one student. The student was armed with a shotgun and a knife. Photo: Special The press service of the attacked university reported this morning the event through a message on social networks in which it said that the teachers and students of the center had locked themselves in the classrooms after hearing gunshots. The young man was injured when he resisted law enforcement during the operation deployed to arrest him and is currently admitted to the intensive care unit of a local hospital.” There are eight dead and several injured,” Russia’s Investigative Committee said in a statement. The region’s health services added that the injured suffer “serious injuries” from the shooting. Russian President Vladimir Putin expressed his condolences to the families of the victims, while the country’s Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin sent to the scene those responsible for the Health and Education ministries.Local authorities declared a day of mourning for the victims of the shooting and suspended classes in all schools and universities in Perm to which they entrusted to reinforce “all their security measures” before to resume work. Read more: U.S. Senate Congressman Halts Democratic Immigration PlanIn May 2021, a former student at a school in Kazan, russia’s Tatarstan, opened a shooting at the school that left nine dead and 23 injured, most of them children. VIDEO. SLP Public Official Falls into Tremendous Hole During Flood

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