A 13-year-old high school student attacked his classmates with a hammer and a knife at a school in the Irkutsk region of Siberia, injuring three people , then self-harmed, local Russian authorities said. This happens days after a similar incident in the Urals.
This morning before PE class "a 13-year-old high school student hit three of his classmates with a hammer“ at a school in Balagansk, after which he was neutralized by the physical education teacher.
This was announced by the Regional Minister of Education Maxim Parfyonov in "Telegram", quoted by AFP and BTA.
"The victims immediately received proper medical assistance and their lives are out of danger,”, he added.
Russian authorities have launched an investigation into the "attempted murder of two or more minors” and "negligence”.
Last Monday, four people - two girls, a boy and a teacher - were injured by a 13-year-old boy who also attacked them with a hammer at a school in Chelyabinsk, in the Urals.
Regional authorities then ordered a security check at all schools in the region.
The motives of the two attackers in these two separate incidents are still unclear, but according to several Russian media reports, the students were participating in an Internet game and were going to kill themselves after carrying out their attacks.
Armed school attacks, once rare, have increased in Russia in recent years to a degree that has alarmed President Vladimir Putin, who sees them as a US-imported phenomenon and a pernicious effect of globalization, prompting him to tighten legislation to bear arms.