Student kills 18, blows off victims' limbs with deadly bomb

A student has killed 18 people in a deadly massacre at a school in Crimea.

Victims' limbs were blown off in a blast which tore through the technical college in Kerch, before gunfire began.

The gunman, named as Vladislav Roslyakov, was reportedly "killing everyone he could see”.

The shooter is said to have killed himself after the massacre and images reportedly showing his face have emerged on social media.

Svetlana Petrenko, from Russia’s Investigative Committee, said: "An unidentified explosive device stuffed with metal items went off at the canteen of the polytechnic college."


A pupil at the college, who gave his name as Sergei, said he had taken a few steps out of the building into the street when the first blast went off.

He was hit by debris from the blast and injured in the leg. Sergei, 15, told Reuters he ran to another building but said he could hear more explosions going off every few seconds.

He took cover and after the attack was over, he was taken to hospital in an ambulance.

He said: “I arrived at the hospital, the scene there was awful.

“They’re bringing in people all covered in blood, some with arms missing, some with legs missing.”

Russia annexed Crimea from Ukraine in 2014, prompting international condemnation and Western sanctions, but since then there have been no major outbreaks of violence there.

A heavily criticised, Russian-backed referendum was held and the people voted to remain part of Putin’s territory.

The killer’s motive remains under investigation.