Interior Ministry members and other authorities gather outside a high school, where a student shot a teacher and a police officer dead and held more than 20 other students hostage, on the outskirts of Moscow, February 3, 2014. REUTERS/Maxim Shemetov
MOSCOW (Reuters) - A teenager described as a model student shot a teacher and a police officer dead and took more than 20 of his schoolmates hostage in a Moscow classroom on Monday, days before Russia hosts the Winter Olympics under tight security.
The suspect was disarmed and detained about an hour after the shootings after talking to his father, the owner of the two rifles with which he forced his way into the school in northern Moscow at midday.
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