Police say they have “neutralised” a gunman who is reported to have killed a police officer and a teacher after taking dozens of children hostage at a Moscow school.
Police said the gunman, reported to be a senior student at the city school, had been detained.
It was reported by Russian news service Russia Today that the gunman had threatened a security guard with a rifle, before going to a classroom and taking over 20 teenage students hostage.
When police approached the classroom it is reported that the gunman opened fire, killing one police officer and wounding another.