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October 18, 2018

Crimea: Student Gunman Kills 19, Injures Dozens at School Shooting
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In Crimea, a gunman killed 19 and wounded dozens more at a university in
the Russian-annexed territory Wednesday. Authorities say the shooter was
an 18-year-old student from the school, who attacked his classmates
before killing himself. The attack is the deadliest instance of school
violence in the region since the 2004 Beslan terror attack, which killed
333 people, most of them children. This is a school administrator
speaking after the attack.

School Administrator: "There were many bodies, children's bodies. It was
a real act of terrorism. They burst inside [college]… Right five or ten
minutes after I left, someone burst inside and blew everything up… All
windows blew out, they blew up the hall. Then they were running around
and throwing some explosive packages. Then they were running around
holding guns, I don't know exactly what weaponry, on the second floor,
they were opening classes and were killing everyone whom they managed to
find, whom they saw. Everyone is ours. It's a real terror act just like
in Beslan."



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