Two dead in Moscow high school student shooting

Moscow: A Moscow high-school student shot a teacher and a police officer dead and held more than 20 other students hostage in a classroom on Monday, police said, just days before Russia hosts the Winter Olympics.
In a rare school shooting in Russia, the attacker entered his school in northern Moscow carrying a rifle and held students and a teacher hostage in a biology classroom, police in the capital said.
“One policeman was fatally wounded during the operation and died in hospital, and a teacher at School No. 263 was also killed,” he said.

The shooting sent dozens of students scurrying out the school while a police helicopter landed in a snow-covered field outside.

It came with Russia in the global spotlight four days before it hosts the 2014 Winter Olympics in the Black Sea resort city of Sochi.