A Russian teenager on Thursday shot dead a classmate and injured five others before killing herself in a school in Bryansk near the Ukrainian border, investigators said.
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School shootings are relatively rare in Russia, which has strict gun laws, but have become more common in recent years.

“A 14-year-old girl brought a pump-action shotgun to school, which she used to shoot her classmates. As a result, two died — one of them the shooter — and there are five wounded,” the Investigative Committee said in a statement.

Authorities did not name the shooter but said the victim was a female classmate at the secondary school in the Bryansk suburb.

“The motives behind the crime and all the circumstances are being established,” the Instigative Committee, which probes major crimes, said.
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The five wounded had been taken to medical facilities, it said.

The shooting took place at Gymnasium Number Five outside the centre of Bryansk, a city near Ukraine that has been subjected to occasional shelling and drone attacks.

In western Russian city of Izhevsk in September last year, a gunman killed 18 people at a school.

In 2021, a 19-year-old shooter killed nine people in a school in Kazan, Tatarstan. That same year, a teenager killed six people at a university in the Urals city of Perm.
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