Student kills teacher, policeman in Moscow school
Source: AP
By LYNN BERRY
MOSCOW (AP) - A 10th-grade student armed with two rifles burst into his Moscow school on Monday and killed his geography teacher and a policeman before being taken into custody, investigators said. The boy's father played a key role in helping to free students being held as hostages and prevent further violence, the city police chief said.
None of the children in School No. 263 at the time were hurt, said Karina Sabitova, a police spokeswoman at the scene. Some ran from the building with their teachers without stopping to put on their coats even though the temperature was below freezing. The school in northeast Moscow is for children in grades one through 11, as is typical in Russia.
The student gunman also seriously wounded a second police officer who had responded to an alarm from the school, investigators said.
Such shootings in Russian schools are extremely rare. Any attack on a school, however, unavoidably brings back memories of the Beslan school siege in 2004, when Islamic militants from Russia's North Caucasus took about 1,000 people hostage, most of them children. More than 300 hostages were killed when Russian security forces stormed the school.
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Police officers evacuate children from a Moscow school on Monday, Feb. 3, 2014. An armed teenager burst into his Moscow school on Monday and killed a teacher and policeman before being taken into custody, investigators said. None of the children who were in School No. 263 were hurt, said Karina Sabitova, a police spokeswoman at the scene. The student also wounded a second police officer who had responded to an alarm from the school, she said. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko)
