Russia college shooting leaves 2 dead, 3 injured

DN Bureau

Two people were killed and three others were wounded in a shooting incident on Thursday at a college in Russia's Far Eastern city of Blagoveshchensk.

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Blagoveshchensk: Two people were killed and three others were wounded in a shooting incident on Thursday at a college in Russia's Far Eastern city of Blagoveshchensk.

One person died and three people were injured in the shooting at a college. Those injured include two teenagers and a young man," Sputnik quoted the Health Ministry of the Amur Region as saying.

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The 19-year-old opened fire in a college campus in Blagoveshchensk and killed one person and injured three others following a conflict with his classmate.

According to the local authorities, a conflict between two classmates might have been the reason behind the shooting.

It wasn't immediately clear what prompted the attack. The attacker shot himself soon after the police arrived, the Amur Region branch of the Russian Interior Ministry said. (ANI)










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