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MOSCOW – Latest news on the deadly explosion in a college in Crimea (local time):
3:45 p.m.
Russia's highest investigative body said it had identified the man who had opened fire in a university in a Crimean town, killing 18 people and injuring more than 40 others.
The investigation committee said that an 18-year-old student, identified as Vladislav Roslyakov, had arrived at Kerchish vocational college Wednesday afternoon with a rifle and had opened fire. Investigators said all victims died from gunshot wounds.
Investigators had previously issued a statement that an improvised explosive device exploded in college.
The investigators cited images from the CCTTV channel showing that the man had opened fire on people and then was killed. The investigators said that they would now treat the incident as a mass murder and not a terrorist attack.
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3:40 p.m.
Russian President Vladimir Putin said that the attack on a college in Crimea was a tragedy and presented his condolences to the families of the victims.
Putin, said Wednesday after talks with visiting Egyptian counterpart Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi, in the seaside resort of Sochi on the Black Sea, that investigators are studying the circumstances of the attack and its motives.
He promised that the government would do everything necessary to help the wounded.
A senior official in Crimea said 18 people had been killed and more than 40 wounded in Wednesday 's attack on the vocational high school in the city of Kerch in eastern Crimea. He said that a college student was the only attacker and that he was killed.
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3:35 p.m.
A senior official in Crimea said that 18 people died and more than 40 were wounded in the attack on a college in the Black Sea peninsula launched by one of his students.
Sergei Aksyonov, regional leader in Crimea, said that the student was killed after the attack. He did not name the man, only claiming he was a local resident and acting alone.
Aksyonov's statement follows the statement by Russian officials that an explosive device allegedly exploded in the college of Kerch, in eastern Crimea, during an alleged terrorist attack.
Russian media reported that one or more unidentified gunmen had attacked the college. Russian officials would not confirm this information.
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3:20 p.m.
The main Russian official in Crimea said that the attacker of a Crimean vocational high school was a school student who had committed suicide.
Sergey Aksyonov's comments are the latest in a series of shifting explanations by Russian officials about what killed 13 people and wounded another 50 on Wednesday at the Kerch College on the Black Sea.
Aksyonov told public television that the attacker was a fourth-grade student at the vocational school who had been killed after the attack. He did not name the man, just saying he was a local resident.
The highest Russian investigative agency said an explosive device with metal fragments caused carnage at the school. However, Russian media reported that at least some of the victims had died during an attack by one or more unidentified gunmen.
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2:55 p.m.
The highest Russian investigative agency said an explosive device with metal fragments killed 13 people at a Crimean university.
The spokesperson of the Russian inquiry commission, Svetlana Petrenko, said the device had been used Wednesday at the canteen of a vocational college in the city of Kerch, on the sea Black. She added that most of the victims were students and that more than 50 people were injured as a result of the blast.
However, Russian media reported, however, that at least some of the victims had died in an attack by one or more unidentified gunmen. Russian officials would not confirm this information.
Dmitry Peskov, the spokesman for Russian President Vladimir Putin, told reporters that officials were preparing for a possible terrorist attack. He did not elaborate.
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1:50 p.m.
The Kremlin claims that the explosion in a college in Crimea that killed at least 10 people could have been a terrorist attack.
According to the authorities, at least ten people were killed and more than 50 injured as a result of the blast in a vocational training school in the city of Kerch on the Black Sea.
Dmitry Peskov, spokesman for Russian President Vladimir Putin, told reporters that officials were preparing for a possible terrorist attack. He did not elaborate.
Peskov said that Putin had asked investigators and intelligence agencies to conduct a thorough investigation and offered his condolences to the families of the victims.
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1:45 p.m.
The Russian anti-terrorism agency said the explosion that killed 10 people in a college in Crimea was triggered by an explosive device.
The National Counter-Terrorism Committee said in a statement that the explosion that occurred in the vocational training college of the city of Kerch, in eastern Crimea, was caused by a non-explosive device. identified.
He said that 50 other people had been injured without giving more details.
Earlier, emergency officials said the blast was caused by a gas cartridge explosion.
Crimea leader Sergei Aksyonov and the Russian Minister of Health visited the region.
Russia annexed Crimea of Ukraine in 2014, an initiative that triggered Western sanctions.
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13h
According to Russian news agencies, about 10 people may have been killed and at least 40 injured by a natural gas explosion at a Crimean university.
The gas cartridge explosion reportedly took place Wednesday at the vocational training high school in the city of Kerch, in eastern Crimea, according to local emergency services officials.
According to the Interfax news agency, local officials said that about ten people may have been killed and some forty others may have been injured by the blast.
The cause of the explosion was not immediately determined.
Russia annexed Crimea of Ukraine in 2014, an initiative that triggered Western sanctions.
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