At least nine people have been killed after a gunman opened fire at a school in the western Russian city of Izhevsk.
Among the dead were five children, said police. Two teachers and two security guards were also killed.
Another 20 people were injured. The gunman later killed himself, reported officers.
“There are victims among the children, there are wounded too,” said Governor of the Udmurtia region, of which Izhevsk is the capital, Alexander Brechalov.
Investigators later updated this statement to give specific numbers on those killed and who the victims were.
The school educated children between grades 1 and 11. It has been evacuated and area around it has been fenced off, the official said.
No details about the gunman or his motives have been released.
Izhevsk, a city of 640,000, is located west of the Ural mountains in central Russia, about 960 kilometres (596 miles) east of Moscow.
Russia has seen several school shootings in recent years.
In May 2021, a teenage gunman killed seven children and two adults in the city of Kazan. In April 2022, an armed man killed two children and a teacher at a kindergarten in the central Ulyanovsk region before committing suicide.
