The Crimea: Carnage in a college at least 17 deaths by balls and more than 40 wounded

According to the local authorities, more than 40 people were wounded and at least 17 deaths by balls, where the author of the attack is a pupil of the establishment which committed suicide.

A pupil of the technical school of Kertch killed nearly 20 of his comrades and wounded about fifty others before committing suicide.

According to the Prime Minister for the peninsula, Sergueï Aksionov, “the author of the attack committed suicide. It is a pupil of fourth year of this establishment. The body was discovered in the library”, he declared with the Russian TV channel Rossiya 24.

The antiterrorist Russian national committee added that its body had been found inside the high school, brings back the agency Heap.

A bomb which contained metal fragments initially exploded in the cafeteria of the high school, before the shootings burst.

According to Olga Grebennikova, the director of the establishment, there were several attackers, which the antiterrorist national committee did not exclude. “They threw explosives a little everywhere then drew on all that moved on the second floor, by opening the doors, (…), there are bodies of children a little everywhere”, she said.

The antiterrorist committee stated that the first examinations showed that the victims, out of the teenagers for the majority, had been killed by balls. The sector of the high school was buckled by armored vehicles and trucks of the army, the schools and nursery schools of the town of Kertch were evacuated after the attack.

According to the site of the establishment, the technical school of Kertch accommodates old teenagers from 15 to 17 years. The ministry for the Situations urgently Russian declared the state emergency with Kertch and announced on its Twitter account the sending on the spot of three helicopters with medical staff and a plane.

The Prime Minister of the Crimea, Sergueï Aksionov, announced on his Facebook page that three days of mourning would be observed in the peninsula. The Russian army, quoted by the agencies, has on its side decided to send 200 soldiers while the local mediums diffused images of armoured tanks and men in behaviour of camouflage being spread around Kertch. The Russian Minister for Health, Veronika Skvortsova, must also go to the site.

Russian president Vladimir Poutine presented in an official statement his condolences to the close relations of the victims. Vladimir Poutine is Wednesday in Sotchi, a seaside resort of the Black Sea, where it receives Egyptian president Abdel Fattah al–Sissi.

The Russian Minister for Defense, Sergueï Choïgou, announced that reinforcements were sent, as well as equipment to come to help for victims.

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