The Commissioner for Human Rights (Ombudsman) of the Republic of Azerbaijan Sabina Aliyeva called the Commissioner for Human Rights of the Republic of Tatarstan Sariya Saburskaya to express condolences over the announcement of mourning as a result of an armed incident at a school in Kazan.

Axar.az reports that during the telephone conversation, the Ombudsman Sabina Aliyeva wished patience to the families of students and school staff killed in the incident, and healing to the injured.

Several people, most of them children, were killed and injured in an armed attack and explosion at school No. 175 in Kazan, the capital of Tatarstan, this morning.