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Six victims, gunman dead after shooting at school in Russia’s Izhevsk

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MOSCOW — A gunman killed six people a school in the Russian city of Izhevsk, Russia’s interior ministry said in a statement on Telegram.

The Udmurtia branch of the interior ministry said the gunman had killed himself and that 20 people were wounded.

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News agency RIA cited Governor Alexander Brechalov of the Udmurtia region, of which Izhevsk is the capital, as saying that an unidentified man had entered the school and killed a security guard. He said that there were dead and wounded among the school students. (Reporting by Reuters; editing by Frank Jack Daniel)