A Moscow high school student shot a teacher and a police officer dead and held about 20 other pupils hostage in a classroom Monday before he was disarmed and detained, Russian authorities said, just days before Russia hosts the Winter Olympics.
In a rare school shooting
in Russia, the attacker entered his school in northern Moscow with a
rifle and held students and a teacher hostage in a biology classroom,
the Investigative Committee of Russia said.
The incident, at School
No. 263, happened around noon local time when the armed student forced
his way past a security guard, who raised an alarm.
"On his way to the class
the shooter injured one of the teachers who died later," said the
committee, Russia's federal intelligence agency. "The police officers
arrived to the school. When they entered the building the shooter opened
a gun fire, injured one and killed another."
The shooting came as the global spotlight falls on Russia, which will host the 2014 Winter Olympics in four days.
Security concerns have been heightened after twin bombings in Volgograd in December.
The Olympic Games will begin Friday in Sochi, and a huge security operation is under way around the Black Sea resort city.
Russia is pouring
resources into ensuring that the Olympic Games, seen as a flagship
project of President Vladimir Putin, go off without problems.
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