Several dead in Russian University shooting; Video shows students leap out windows

Moscow:  A gunman opened fire in a university in the Russian city of Perm Monday morning, leaving five people dead and six wounded before he was detained, Russia's Investigative Committee revealed.

The preliminary investigation revealed that the unidentified perpetrator used a non-lethal gun. The Health Ministry of the Perm region reported 14 people were wounded. However, the exact numbers couldn't be immediately reconciled.

Terrified students and staff of the university hid in auditoriums and locked themselves in rooms.

Perm State University urged those who could leave the campus to do so. Video showed several people jumping from windows in order to escape the attack.

Videos circulating on social media shows students throwing belongings from windows from buildings on campus before jumping to flee the shooter.

A clip shows people leaping from first floor window as the attack unfolded.

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The gunman was later detained, Russia's Interior Ministry said. The Investigative Committee has opened a murder probe in the aftermath of the incident.

The shooter - identified in Russian media as 18-year-old Timur Bekmansurov. He is understood to have been a student at the university, which is around 800 miles east of Moscow.

In a social media post shortly before the attack, Bekmansurov wrote that he wanted to leave as much pain behind as possible, describing himself as "unstoppable".

The last such deadly attack took place in May 2021, when a 19-year-old gunman opened fire in his old school in the central Russian city of Kazan, killing nine people.

Earlier in November 2019, a 19-year-old student in the far eastern town of Blagoveshchensk opened fire at his college, killing one classmate and injuring three other people before killing himself.

In October 2018, another teenage gunman killed 20 people at a Kerch technical college in Crimea, the peninsula Russia annexed from Ukraine in 2014.