DIE IN MASSACRE AT COLLEGE
Student then kills himself
A RAMPAGING gunman shot dead 19 students and injured 50 others in a massacre at a college in Crimea.
off students as he burst through the gates.
He added: “I locked the door, hoping he wouldn’t hear me.”
When police arrived to evacuate the survivors he said he walked out of the building past dead bodies.
Olga Grebennikova, the director of the college, who was not at the scene at the time, said armed men had charged into the building. “There were lots of corpses, corpses of kids, a real terrorist attack,” she said.
In the wake of the chaos schools and pre-schools were evacuated in the city. Crimea was part of Ukraine until it was seized by Russia in 2014 and annexed after a vote that many say was rigged. Tensions between the two countries have been strained ever since.
The 18-year-old student opened fire on his classmates at the school in Kerch before turning the gun on himself.
Officials have identified the killer as Vladislav Roslyakov.
At first investigators blamed the carnage on a terror attack and claimed an explosive device filled with “metal objects” had detonated in the dining area of the college.
But witnesses revealed that a lone gunman was responsible for the bloodbath.
Student Semyon Gavrilov said he had dozed off in the middle of a lecture and woke up to the sound of shooting.
When he looked out of his classroom window he saw a young man with a rifle picking
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