At least eight people are reported to have been killed and several injured after a gunman opened fire at Russia’s Perm State University on Monday. Officials say that the shooter has since been neutralised.
According to Russian news agency Interfax, staff and students of Perm State University locked themselves in rooms during the incident.
A report by Russia’s Tass news agency quoted police as saying that some students jumped off the windows of a building to save themselves from the shooter’s attack.
The university has now urged those who could leave the campus to do so.
A report by CNN said that the shooter was a male student and had been identified even though it’s not clear whether he was a student at the university. Russian state investigative committee has launched a criminal murder investigation.