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World in brief: September 26, 2022
Funeral workers carry a body of victim at the scene of a shooting at school No. 88 in Izhevsk, Russia, Monday, September 26, 2022

RUSSIA: A gunman killed at least 15 people, including 11 children, and wounded 24 others at a school before shooting himself today.

The gunman, identified as a 34-year-old ex-pupil of the school, was wearing a black T-shirt bearing “Nazi symbols.”

The shooting, which the Kremlin condemned as a “terrorist act,” took place in School No 88 in Izhevsk, a city about 600 miles east of Moscow in the Udmurtia region. 

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