30 Apr 2009
AP: 12 killed in college shooting in Baku
According to Associated Press reports, a gunman shot and killed 12 people and wounded 13 others before turning the gun on himself at the prestigeous Azerbaijan State Oil Academy.
The man of Georgian descent, Fadra Gadyrov, entered the Academy with a pistol and made his way to the fifth floor firing on students and faculty as he went. As he saw police approaching he shot and killed himself.
Victims described the ordeal.
Bekir Belek, a Turkish student, spoke to Turkey’s CNN-Turk television from a hospital in Baku.
“We were in an exam, we heard gunshots, we went out of the classroom in panic and saw a gunman opening fire on everyone, three of my friends were shot,” Belek told Turkey’s CNN-Turk television. “Everywhere was covered in blood, all corridors. There are many wounded.”
“We were trying to escape but had to return when my friends were shot, we took them to hospital,” Belek said.
“There were bodies at each floor,” said Ibrahim Kar, another Turkish student at the hospital.