Moscow Clinics To Treat 2 More Crimea Shooting Victims - Authorities

Moscow Clinics to Treat 2 More Crimea Shooting Victims - Authorities

Two teenage girls hurt in this week's college shooting in Crimea will be flown to Moscow soon to continue their treatment, regional authorities said Saturday.

MOSCOW (Pakistan Point News / Sputnik - 20th October, 2018) Two teenage girls hurt in this week's college shooting in Crimea will be flown to Moscow soon to continue their treatment, regional authorities said Saturday.

A shooting at Kerch Polytechnic left 21 people dead and over 50 injured. The Russian Health Ministry said 45 remained in hospital as of Saturday morning, three of them in critical condition.

"Medical specialists from Moscow flew to Crimea to consult those injured and determine their treatment plan... They decided to send two female patients... to Moscow clinics," the Crimean government said in a statement.

Some of the critically injured were airlifted to Moscow on Wednesday after a bomb and gun attack on the vocational school for teenagers in the city of Kerch. Police sources told Sputnik the gunman, a fourth-year student who killed himself, had planned the shooting since January 2017 and acted alone.