MOSCOW: A 14-year-old girl shot a classmate dead and injured five people before killing herself at a secondary school in the Russian city of Bryansk near the Ukraine border on Thursday.
Fatal attacks at educational facilities -- previously a rarity -- have become more common in Russia in recent years.
Moscow has taken steps to tighten already strict gun laws after a series of school attacks. After the Bryansk attack, the Kremlin said it would look into “why the measures did not work”.
Moscow has voiced concern after previous attacks, with President Vladimir Putin calling the incidents a US import. “A 14-year-old girl brought a pump-action shotgun to school, which she used to shoot her classmates,” Russia´s Investigative Committee said in a statement.