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.
School shootings are relatively rare in Russia, which has strict gun laws, but have become more common in recent years.
The Investigative committee in a statement that 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.
Authorities did not name the shooter, but said the victim was a female classmate in the secondary school in the Bryansk suburb but said the gun used by the girl was registered in her father’s name.
The investigative committee which proves major crime said motives behind the crime and all the circumstances are being established.
It added that the five wounded had been taken to medical facilities.
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, in Tatarstan and that same year, a teenager killed six people at a university in the Urals city of Perm.