On October 17, a
student went on a shooting rampage, detonated a bomb at the Kerch Polytechnic
College in Crimea, and later committed suicide.
KERCH, October 19.
/TASS/. About 20,000 people have come to Lenin Square in central Kerch on
Friday, where a funeral service for the people killed in the attack on a city
college is being held, deputy head of the city administration Dilyaver
Melgaziyev told TASS.
About 10,000 people
were expected to attend the funeral service, according to earlier reports.
Kerch’s population is about 150,000.
"About 20,000
[people] have come," the deputy mayor said, noting that the lying-in-state
ceremony may be shortened at the request of the bereaved families.
On October 17, a
Kerch Polytechnic College student opened fire in the college and set off an
explosive device. Twenty people were killed, about 50 were injured, and the
attacker committed suicide. The criminal case launched under the "Terror
Attack" section was later reclassified under the "Murder"
section. Three days of morning were declared in Crimea on October 18.
Source: ITAR-TASS
19-10-2018
