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11 May, 5 tweets, 4 min read
#BREAKING At least nine people are killed after shooting breaks out at a high school in the central Russian city of Kazan, news agencies report

"Eight schoolchildren and a teacher were killed," a source tells the Interfax news agency
#BREAKING Second gunman in Russian school shooting killed: news agencies
#BREAKING Putin orders gun control review after school shooting: Kremlin
#UPDATE Russian President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday ordered a review of gun control legislation following a deadly shooting at a high school in the central city of Kazan, the Kremlin said
#UPDATE At least nine people, most of them children, were killed on Tuesday when a lone teenage gunman opened fire at a school in the central Russian city of #Kazan, officials said u.afp.com/Usqs

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