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(MOSCOW) – At least 10 of the wounded during a school shooting and bombing by a student in a vocational training school in Crimea will be flown to hospitals in Russia announced Thursday the Minister of Health.
An 18-year-old student wreaked havoc on a school in the Crimean peninsula that Russia annexed to Ukraine in 2014, killing 19 people and injuring more than 50 before killing itself. Wednesday's attack in the city of Kerch was by far the worst of a student's attacks in Russia, raising questions about school safety in the country. The Polytechnic College of Kerch only had a reception without security agents.
Health Minister Veronika Skvortsova told Russian news agencies on Thursday that the authorities were preparing to transport at least 10 seriously injured people to the best Russian hospitals for surgery. Dozens of others remain hospitalized in Kerch.
Most of the people killed died from gunshot wounds, and those who were hospitalized were injured by the explosion of an improvised explosive device filled with shrapnel.
"Children's muscles have been" minced "with small metal objects," Skvortsova said in comments taken over by the Interfax news agency. "Those who have their organs torn apart, we find metal bullets in the kidneys, intestines and blood vessels. This is how much the explosion was powerful. "
Kremlin-appointed Crimea leader Sergei Aksyonov told Russian news agencies that the first victim would be buried on Thursday.
The attack against schools in Kerch was the largest casualty of school-related violence in Russia since the Beslan attack by Chechen separatists in 2004, during which 333 people were killed during a three day siege, including many children, and hundreds of others injured.
