RUSSIA Crimea attack: College shooting is ‘globalisation’ result

The deadly gun and bomb attack on a college in Crimea “appears to be a result of globalisation”, Russian President Vladimir Putin has said. “On social media, on the internet, we see the creation of entire communities. Everything started with the tragic events in schools in the US,” he said. Fifteen students and five teachers […]

The deadly gun and bomb attack on a college in Crimea “appears to be a result of globalisation”, Russian President Vladimir Putin has said.

“On social media, on the internet, we see the creation of entire communities. Everything started with the tragic events in schools in the US,” he said.

Fifteen students and five teachers were killed in Wednesday’s attack on the technical college in Kerch.

Officials named the killer as Vladislav Roslyakov, 18, who took his own life.

He was a fourth-year student at the college in the city in Crimea – the southern peninsula annexed by Russia from Ukraine in 2014.

On Wednesday, a huge nail-bomb blast ripped through the college’s cafeteria, before the killer stormed through the building, shooting people at close range with a pump-action hunting rifle.

Russian Health Minister Veronika Skvortsova said “Some victims’ internal organs were ruptured, we’re finding washers and ballbearings in their livers, intestines, blood vessels.”