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Police official defends guard after fatal Moscow school shooting

"There were cases when the panic button at a facility was pressed some time after the criminals' attack, but the guard at that school was not stupefied"

MOSCOW, February 11. /ITAR-TASS/. An Interior Ministry official defended a school guard from what he called "unjustified rebukes" for his actions during the deadly attack by a rifle-toting teenager.

"It would be unfair to reproach that guard from a private security enterprise, for not squaring up to the armed 15-year-old shooter as the latter was pointing the gun at him," deputy head of the Interior Ministry's public security department Leonid Vedenov said at an all Russian conference on private security firms.