Injured Taken To Hospital On Truck After Crimea Blast
Local media showed chaotic scenes after a blast in Kerch, Crimea, with one injured man being driven away on the back of a truck while other people held a drip he was connected to. Authorities on the peninsula, which Russia annexed from Ukraine in 2014, said the attack was carried out by a student who subsequently killed himself.
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Russian investigators now treating Crimea college attack as murder, not terrorism, and say at least some victims appear to have died of gunshot wounds, suspect was 18-year-old student. More to follow.
'This Is A Crime': Putin Responds To Crimea Attack
Russian President Vladimir Putin voiced condolences for the victims of an attack on a college in Crimea, saying it was clearly a crime and that the results of investigations would be made public. He was speaking after talks in Sochi with his Egyptian counterpart, Abdel Fattah el-Sisi.
More details of the attack emerging....
The Russian newspaper Komsomolskaya Pravda quoted student Semyon Gavrilov as saying he woke up to the sound of shooting after falling asleep in a lecture and then saw a young man firing at people with a rifle.
"I locked the door, hoping he wouldn't hear me," the paper quoted Gavrilov as saying.
He said he saw dead bodies on the floor and charred walls, presumably from some fire or explosion, after police arrived about 10 minutes later to evacuate people from the building.
According to RFE/RL's Russian service, medical authorities say one of the wounded has died in hospital, raising the total number of those killed in the Kerch attack to 19.