18-year-old boy blows up self with explosive in school

An 18-year-old boy on Monday blew up self in a school in an attempted suicide. The teenager, in the attempted suicide, had detonated an explosive on himself at an Orthodox school in a 14th-century convent outside Moscow, Russia.  While the teenager survived death, the explosive injured 10 other children in the school.

Authorities in Moscow were gathered to have revealed that the 18-year-old boy, identified as a former student of the school, survived; and was taken into intensive care but had his leg amputated following severe injuries sustained from the explosion.

A representative of the Investigative Committee, Olga Vradiy, was cited to have said: “The person who tried to commit suicide is in intensive care.”

The interior ministry had narrated that the boy gained access to “the Orthodox gymnasium next to the Vvedenskiy Vladychniy convent and blew himself up.”

The convent was identified to be in the city of Serpukhov, 100 kilometres (60 miles) south of Moscow.

The children’s rights ombudsman for Moscow region, Ksenia Mishonova, had acknowledged that 10 children were injured.

Mishonova had highlighted: “One teenager was hospitalised. The rest of the children are in hospitals in the Moscow region.

“There is no threat to their lives.”

The Investigative Committee had indicated that it opened a criminal case into attempted murder and the illegal handling of explosives. Pupils in the school were said to be between the ages of 7 and 16.

Citing a police source, State news agency, TASS, had disclosed that the 18-year-old boy intended to detonate the device during morning prayers, but it detonated at the entrance to the school.