Syria Strongly Condemns Criminal Act That Targeted Polytechnic Collage in Crimea
DAMASCUS, (ST)-Syria has condemned the cowardly criminal attack which targeted the Polytechnic College in the city of Kerch in the west of the Russian Crimea Peninsula, stressing the need to join efforts as to put an end to all forms of terrorism and organized crime.
An official source at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates told SANA on Wednesday that the Syrian Arab Republic condemns in the strongest terms the criminal act against the Polytechnic College in Kerch city in Crimea which claimed the lives of scores of innocent people and wounded many others.
Syria expresses its sympathy and full solidarity with the leadership, government and people of Russia and offers deep condolences over the death of innocent people, wishing speedy recovery to the wounded persons, said the source.
Syria calls for joining all’s efforts against terrorism and organized crime
Syria also affirms the need that all should join efforts to stop all forms of terrorism and organized crime in order to maintain peace and stability all over the world.
The Russian Itar Tass News agency reported earlier on Wednesday that a fourth-year senior who was attending the Kerch technical college went on a shooting spree and then killed himself. At least 19 people were killed and some 45 others injured in the attack, many of them students.
Spokeswoman for Russia’s Investigative Committee Svetlana Petrenko told TASS that “investigators have promptly established the identity of a young man who had arrived at the college immediately before the incident and who, proceeding from a video recording, was holding a rifle in his hand. He turned out to be Vladislav Roslyakov, a fourth-year student from the college. His body with a gunshot wound was found in one of the college’s rooms,” the spokeswoman said.
The young man who went on a shooting spree at the Kerch technical college on Wednesday did not have a criminal past, Crimean Head Sergei Aksyonov told Rossiya 24 TV channel.
Hamda Mustafa