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Russia's Investigative Committee, which handles major crimes,
said it was looking into the attacker's suspected neo-Nazi
links. It named him as Artem Kazantsev, a man in his early
thirties, and said he was a graduate of the school.
"Currently investigators ... are conducting a search of his
residence and studying the personality of the attacker, his
views and surrounding milieu," the committee said in a
statement. "Checks are being made into his adherence to
neo-fascist views and Nazi ideology."
Investigators released a short video showing the man's body
lying on the floor of a classroom with overturned furniture and
papers strewn on the bloodstained floor. He was dressed all in
black, with a red swastika in a circle drawn on his teeshirt.
The committee said the six adult victims included teachers and
security guards. It said 21 people, including 14 children, were
wounded.
Tass news agency quoted investigators as saying the attacker was
armed with two pistols and a large supply of ammunition.
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said President Vladimir Putin
"deeply mourns" the deaths. He described the incident as "a
terrorist act by a person who apparently belongs to a
neo-fascist organisation or group".
He said doctors, psychologists and neurosurgeons had been sent
on Putin's orders to the location of the shooting in Izhevsk,
about 970 km (600 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.
(Reporting by Reuters; writing by Mark Trevelyan, editing by
Frank Jack Daniel, Angus MacSwan and Nick Macfie)
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