Lone 18-year-old kills 18 people, many of them teens, in shooting and bomb attack at college, Russia says originally appeared on abcnews.go.com

At least 18 people, many of them teenagers, were killed, and over 50 others were injured in a bomb and shooting attack at a college in Crimea that local officials said was carried out by a student.

Investigators said the attack was carried out by a lone 18-year-old student at the state polytechnic college, who entered the school on Wednesday afternoon armed with a gun and began shooting people and set off a bomb in the college's cafeteria, before killing himself.

Russia’s Investigative Committee, the equivalent of the FBI, said it believed the attacker was Vladislav Roslyakov, a fourth-year student at the college which is in the Black Sea city of Kerch on Crimea's east coast.

PHOTO: Law enforcement officers at the site of an explosion at a college in the Crimean city of Kerch, Oct. 17, 2018. (Yekaterina Keizo/TASS via ZUMA Press) More

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Roslyakov was captured on CCTV entering the college holding a gun shortly before the shooting began, said Svetlana Petrenko, a spokeswoman for the committee.

“His body was found in the school with a gunshot wound,” Petrenko said in a statement. “Judging by the picture of the crime, investigators believe the young man shot and killed people in the school before committing suicide.”

The first indication of the attack were reports of an explosion at the college, which police later said was from a homemade bomb packed with metal objects in the cafeteria. Inside, students who witnessed the attack said the gunman had moved down a corridor shooting at anyone he saw.

Semyon Gavrilov, a student at the school told the Russian newspaper Komsomolskaya Pravda that he had looked out of a classroom and seen "a guy walking around with a rifle and shooting everyone."

PHOTO: An ambulance near the building of the Kerch Polytechnic Vocational School where there was an explosion, Oct. 17, 2018, in the city of Kerch, Crimea, Russia. (Tass via ZUMAPRESS.com/Newscom) More

Gavrilov said he shut himself in the room and about 10 minutes later police with assault rifles arrived. "In the corridor where the explosion went off the windows were broken. There were dead bodies sprawled around the floor. All the walls were charred," Gavrilov told the newspaper.

The school's director, Olga Grebennikova, said she had left the school about 5 to 10 minutes before the attack began.

“They were running, throwing plastic bags with explosives, then they were running with assault rifles — I don’t know with what — around the second floor, opening rooms and killing everyone they could find,” Grebennikova told KerchNet, a local Crimean television station shortly after the attack. “There are many corpses, lots of children,” Grebennikova said, starting to cry.

Videos shot by students on mobile phones during the attack have appeared in the Russian media. One, published by the popular messenger channel, Mash, showed students outside the college building first laughing when the bomb-blast appeared to go off and then growing quiet as they realized an explosion has happened and as gunshots can be heard from inside.

Russia's National Terrorism Committee said investigators had later found a second explosive device in the school and disarmed it.

PHOTO: A rescuer carries an injured victim of a blast at at a college in the city of Kerch, Oct. 17, 2018. (AFP/Getty Images) More

School shootings are exceedingly rare in Russia, which has strict gun regulations, and no attack in over a decade has been as deadly as Wednesday's in Crimea.

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