A Russian teenager tried to blow himself up at an Orthodox school in a 14th-century convent outside Moscow on Monday, wounding ten children, IgbereTV reports.
The attacker, an 18-year-old former student of the school, survived. He was taken into intensive care and had his leg amputated after suffering injuries, authorities said.
“The person who tried to commit suicide is in intensive care,” a representative of the Investigative Committee, Olga Vradiy, told journalists.
Police and ambulances lined the red-coloured medieval walls of the convent, founded in 1360.
Russia has seen a rise in attacks on schools in recent years but incidents at religious premises are rare.
The interior ministry said the teenager entered “the Orthodox gymnasium next to the Vvedenskiy Vladychniy convent and blew himself up.”
The convent is in the city of Serpukhov, 100 kilometres (60 miles) south of Moscow.
Ten children were wounded, said Ksenia Mishonova, the children’s rights ombudswoman for the Moscow region
