2021 Kazan school attack
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Key facts
- Date
- 11 May 2021 , 9:24 – 9:32 a.m. ( MSK )
- Target
- Gymnasium
- Attack type
- Mass shooting , mass murder , school shooting , school bombing
- Weapons
- Hatsan Escort PS Guard semi-automatic shotgun ( 12-gauge ) Improvised explosive device Knife (unused)
- Injured
- 23 (including at least 8 students and 3 adults with gunshot wounds )
- Perpetrator
- Ilnaz Galyaviev
- Motive
- Grandiose delusions Desire to copy the actions of members of "destructive subcultures and communities" (officially)
- Verdict
- Pleaded guilty
- Sentence
- Life imprisonment
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- school shooting
- Country
- Russia
- Location
- Kazan
- Image
- Ilnaz Galyaviev f000.jpg
- Number of deaths
- 9
- Number of injured
- 23
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- point in time
- 2021-05-11
- Commons category
- Kazan school attack
- armament
- improvised explosive device
- number of perpetrators
- 1
- penalty
- life imprisonment
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Encyclopedic overview
On 11 May 2021, a school shooting and a school bombing occurred in Kazan, Tatarstan, in the western part of Russia. Seven 8th-grade students and two teachers were murdered, all by gunfire, and 23 others were injured. The perpetrator was identified as 19-year-old Ilnaz Galyaviev, a former student. He pleaded guilty to the murder of two or more persons on the next day and was sentenced to life imprisonment in April 2023.
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Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “2021 Kazan school attack” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.