SULAIMANI (ESTA) — At least eight people were killed after a student opened fire at a university in the Russian city of Perm on Monday, law enforcement said.
The gunman was himself killed after the shootings at Perm State University, around 1,300 km (800 miles) east of Moscow, university spokesperson Natalia Pechishcheva said.
“He was liquidated,” Reuters quoted her as saying.
Earlier media footage from the scene showed students jumping from first-floor windows to escape the building, landing heavily on the ground before running to safety.
The gunman was identified as a student at the university, the Investigative Committee, that handles probes into major crimes, said.
“There were about 60 people in the classroom. We closed the door and barricaded it with chairs,” student Semyon Karyakin told Reuters.
Local media identified the gunman as an 18-year-old student who had earlier posted a social media photo of himself posing with a rifle, helmet and ammunition.
The shootings were the latest in a series.
Earlier this year a lone teenage gunman opened fire at a school in the city of Kazan in May, killing nine people and wounding many more.
That was Russia’s deadliest school shooting since 2018 when a student at a college in Russian-annexed Crimea killed 20 people before turning his gun on himself.
