MOSCOW, January 23 (RAPSI) – The Oktyabrsky District Court of Ulan-Ude, a city in Russia’s Buryatia Republic, has detained a student of the 9th grade, charged with attacking children and a teacher in a local school, the press-service of the court told RAPSI on Tuesday.

The defendant is to stay in detention until March 19.

According to investigators, on January 19 the defendant entered the school premises and attacked pupils of the 7th grade; after that he set fire in a classroom with a bottle containing flammable liquid. Three children and a teacher were injured in the course of the attack. The alleged perpetrator has been charged with attempted murder of more than two children.

This is the second incident where Russian schools were attacked this month. On January 15, a student in the 10th grade and a former pupil of the same school intentionally caused multiple stab wounds to nine 4th graders and their teacher. The victims were hospitalized. The alleged attackers have been charged with attempted murder of more than two children collusively committed by a group of persons.