Video: Knife attack kills student in Moscow school, the attacker is 15-year-old

Published December 16th, 2025 - 08:29 GMT
Moscow school
A stabbing in Moscow school attack kills 1 person. (Shutterstock)

ALBAWABA - At least one student was killed in a knife attack that took place inside a school in Odintsovo district near Moscow, local media confirmed on Tuesday.

A young student was killed, and three others were injured in a knife attack in Moscow, Russia, on December 16. 

According to the police, the attack was carried out by a 15-year-old student at a secondary school, who attacked classmates with a knife.

The minor attacker locked himself inside an office and took a girl hostage, media confirmed, and police were called to the scene. Law enforcement agencies headed to the school and evacuated students from the school building in the village of Gorki-2.

Special forces broke into the room and detained the suspect, and freed the hostage unharmed. 

The motivation of the attack is yet to be known, nor did the police reveal anything about the identity of the attacker. However, many social media activists posted images of a young boy wearing a shirt with "No Lives Matter," and claimed that he is allegedly the stabber.