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Kazan school shooter taken into custody for two months

The shooting killed nine and left 23 wounded
Ilnaz Galyaviyev Yegor Aleyev/TASS
Ilnaz Galyaviyev
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KAZAN, May 12. /TASS/. A court in the Russian city of Kazan has ruled that Ilnaz Galyaviyev, charged with attacking the city’s School Number 175, should be taken into custody for two months, a TASS correspondent reported from the courtroom.

"The defendant is to be taken into custody for two months, until July 11, 2021," a judge said.

On May 11, Kazan’s Public School Number 175 was attacked by a gunman who had graduated from there four years earlier. The shooting killed nine and left 23 wounded. A criminal case into the shooting incident is being investigated by the main branch of Russia’s Investigative Committee.