BREAKING UPDATE: Death toll of 13 following school shooting in Izhevsk, Russia

A school shooting at school number 88 on Pushkinskaya street, Izhevsk, Russia was reported on Monday, September 26.

Update 10.53.am (September 26) The death toll in the Izhevsk school shooting in Russia has risen to 13 people. Among them are seven children.

Prior reports claimed the death toll sits at nine people:

The Investigative Committee of the #Russian Federation reports that nine people were killed in the school shooting in #Izhevsk – 5 schoolchildren, 2 guards and 2 teachers. pic.twitter.com/11s9PqLUuL

— NEXTA (@nexta_tv) September 26, 2022

Original 9.29.am (September 26) According to preliminary reports the school shooting at Pushkinskaya street in Izhevsk, Russia has seen students and teachers evacuated, with emergency services reportedly on their way to the site.

The attacker allegedly killed the security guard, walked on and began shooting at the children.

Two schoolchildren are known to have been injured. Some managed to hide in the classrooms.

The shooting started during the lessons, when an unidentified man in a black suit burst into the classroom and opened fire.

The headmistress managed to hide with a wounded teenager in a classroom and locked herself inside, as reported by Enews112

The man who attacked the school shot himself in room 403 on the fourth floor according to subsequent reports:

⚡️#Russian Telegram channels report that the gunman who attacked the school shot himself. The number of injured children has risen to 9. pic.twitter.com/2BTCcNuYk6

— NEXTA (@nexta_tv) September 26, 2022

The news follows reports that Aleksandr Eliseev, a Russian commander in Ust-Ilimsk, Russia, was shot at a military enlistment office on Monday, September 26.

An eyewitness of the shooting at the military registration and enlistment office in Ust-Ilimsk said that there was no metal detectors at the military registration and enlistment office.

In addition, Ukrainian Armed Forces HIMARS launched an attack on a hotel in the Russian-occupied city of Kherson, that saw former deputy of Ukraine’s Verkhovna Rada Alexey Zhuravko killed, as reported on Sunday, September 25.

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