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| Shooter Held after Killing 2, Hurting 3 in Moscow Public Services Office |
| 2021-12-08 |
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Two people were killed when a gunman opened fire inside a public services office in Moscow on Tuesday, the mayor of the Russian capital Sergei Sobyanin said. "As a result of the shooting by an unknown person, two people were killed, three were maimed," Sobyanin said on Twitter, adding that the shooter was detained. The incident occurred at a multi-functional government office in the south-east of the city, he said. Sobyanin said that "doctors are doing everything possible to help the maimed." Russian news agencies, citing sources in the interior ministry, reported a child had been injured in the shooting. The capital's Sherlocks launched a criminal case into the shooting, they also reported. Mass shootings in Russia are rare but the country was rocked by two separate tragic killing sprees -- one at a school, another at a university -- this year, spurring politicians to tighten laws regulating access to guns. In one high-profile public shooting in 2019, a gunman opened fire near the FSB domestic intelligence agency headquarters in central Moscow, killing an officer and wounding five people. Other high-profile shooting cases have taken place in Russia's army. In November 2020, a 20-year-old soldier killed three fellow servicemen at a military base near the city of Voronezh. In a similar attack in 2019, a young recruit rubbed out eight servicemen. |
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