Moscow police say a student burst into a high school Monday with a rifle and fatally shot a police officer and a teacher before briefly taking a class full of children hostage.
Reuters quoted a police spokesman in saying that the gunman had been "neutralized," though it is not clear whether he is alive or dead. Details of the student's identity were not immediately available.
Russia Today reported that the gunman entered the school and threatened the school's security guard before making his way to a biology classroom, where he took 29 students hostage before releasing most of them soon after. It is not clear when the rest of the children were released.
The security guard called police to the scene, and the gunman reportedly shot two of the responding officers, one fatally. It is not clear when he shot the teacher.
The school was evacuated of the rest of the students. No injuries to students were reported. All Russian schools are required to have at least one armed security guard as the result of legislation passed in the wake of the 2004 Beslan school hostage crisis, which ended in the deaths of over 300 people, including nearly 200 children.
(Fox News)