Russia college shooting leaves 2 dead, 3 injured

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Two people were killed and three others were wounded in a shooting incident on Thursday at a college in Russia's Far Eastern city of Blagoveshchensk.

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Blagoveshchensk: Two people were killed and three others were wounded in a shooting incident on Thursday at a college in Russia's Far Eastern city of Blagoveshchensk.

One person died and three people were injured in the shooting at a college. Those injured include two teenagers and a young man," Sputnik quoted the Health Ministry of the Amur Region as saying.

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The 19-year-old opened fire in a college campus in Blagoveshchensk and killed one person and injured three others following a conflict with his classmate.

According to the local authorities, a conflict between two classmates might have been the reason behind the shooting.

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It wasn't immediately clear what prompted the attack. The attacker shot himself soon after the police arrived, the Amur Region branch of the Russian Interior Ministry said. (ANI)










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