As-it-happened: Deadly school shooting in Russia - BBC News
Local authorities say at least eight people have bee killed in the Russian city of Kazan and many more hurt.
The Russian parliament says it will carry out a full review of gun control laws, in light of the Kazan shooting.

Russia’s regulations are already strict, but politicians say better data collection on gun owners and sales is needed.

MP Anatoly Vyborny, a specialist in that area, called for a central online database to alert officials. He said it should show, for example, if police had reported a gun owner to be a drug addict or alcoholic.

There are also calls to raise the minimum age for licence-holders - currently it is 18.

The most senior MP, Duma Speaker Vyacheslav Volodin, said Tatarstan’s school security was better than in some other regions of Russia. But some youths there had been attracted to “extremist groups” he added.

To get a gun licence in Russia you need: certificates from medics, including a psychiatrist and ophthalmologist, and you have to complete a course on safe handling of weapons. You must then get a special safe to store the weapon and have it inspected by police, BBC Monitoring reported in 2018.

Gun ownership is far less common than in the US: more than 4.5 million people legally own guns in Russia.

But there is a large black market in guns – partly fuelled by the eastern Ukraine conflict – and illegal guns are bought on the dark web, usually with cryptocurrency.