A Russian teenager shot dead a classmate and wounded five others before committing suicide at a school in Bryansk, near the Ukrainian border, investigators said, AFP reported.
School shootings are relatively rare in Russia, which has strict gun laws, but have become more frequent in recent years.
"A 14-year-old girl brought a pump-action shotgun to school with which she shot her classmates. As a result, two people died - one of them the shooter - and five were injured," the Investigative Committee said in a statement.
Authorities did not name the shooter, but said the victim was a high school classmate in the suburb of Bryansk.
"The motives for the crime and all the circumstances are being established," the Investigative Committee said.
The five injured were taken to medical facilities, it was reported from there.
The shooting took place at Gymnasium No. 5 outside the center of Bryansk, a city near Ukraine that has been subject to occasional shelling and drone attacks.
Last September, in the western Russian city of Izhevsk, a gunman killed 18 people at a school.
In 2021, a 19-year-old gunman killed nine people at a school in Kazan, in Tatarstan. That same year, a teenager killed six people at a university in the Ural city of Perm. /BGNES
