a 14-year-old girl kills a friend in a school before committing suicide

A 14-year-old girl opened fire in a school in Bryansk, a city in western Russia, killing a classmate and wounding five people, before committing suicide, investigators reported in a press release on Thursday, December 7.

“A 14-year-old girl came to school with a shotgun, shooting her classmates” and killing one of them, specifies the press release from the Investigative Committee of Russia. The injured are all children, who were hospitalized, according to the regional governor. “The motives and circumstances” of the tragedy are being established, said the police.

Once extremely rare, gun attacks have tended to become more numerous in Russia in recent years, particularly in schools. To the point that Russian President Vladimir Putin was alarmed, seeing it as a phenomenon imported from the United States and a perverse effect of globalization, which led him to toughen legislation on the carrying of weapons.