AKIPRESS.COM - A teenager attacked a teacher with an ax, then opened fire with an air gun and threw smoke grenades in a school in Moscow Region, RT reported citing authorities.
Russian authorities said that several schoolchildren were injured in the panic following the incident.
The incident took place in a local school in the town of Ivanteyevka, some 20km northeast of Moscow, police press office told TASS.
“A 15-year-old student attacked an IT teacher …with a kitchen ax and hit her on the head. Then the teenager started detonating homemade firecrackers and shooting with an air gun,” the Russian prosecutor general said in a statement.
“At least four people have been injured, including three children and one teacher,” police press service told TASS.
The teenager has been detained and is currently being questioned, a local branch of the Russian Investigative committee said. Now the authorities have to determine the motives behind the attack, the statement added.
The moment of the attacker's apprehension was caught on camera.