Scores Of Crimea College Shooting Victims Remain In Hospital - Health Ministry

Scores of Crimea College Shooting Victims Remain in Hospital - Health Ministry

Scores of people, many of them teenagers, remain in hospital after a shooting this week at a college in the Crimean city of Kerch, Russian health authorities said Saturday.

MOSCOW (Pakistan Point News / Sputnik - 20th October, 2018) Scores of people, many of them teenagers, remain in hospital after a shooting this week at a college in the Crimean city of Kerch, Russian health authorities said Saturday.

A fourth-year student exploded a bomb and opened fire on fellow students on Wednesday at Kerch Polytechnic, a vocational school for teenagers, killing 21 people and wounding over 50.

"As of 10 a.m. Saturday [7:00GMT], 45 people have been receiving treatment, 25 of them are children," the Russian Health Ministry's press office said in a statement.

Three people are in a critical condition, according to the press release. The condition of 10 others is assessed as serious.

The attack, the first of its kind to hit Russia's Black Sea peninsula, was initially treated as an act of terrorism but was later reclassified as mass murder. The shooter killed himself in the college library.