Police Release Video of Buguruslan Kindergarten Attacker's Arrest

The press service of the Russian Interior Ministry«s regional directorate for Orenburg Oblast released footage of the arrest of a 25-year-old man who attacked a kindergarten in Buguruslan (Orenburg Oblast, Russia) on Frunze Street today.

He broke down a spare door, reached the second floor, but teacher Liya Galeeva, though cut, managed to take his knife and disarm him, locking him in the basement. No children were injured. The attacker was so intoxicated that he could not explain why he did it.

As 56.RU reported, two criminal cases have been opened: for attempted murder and negligence. The situation is under the control of Governor Yevgeny Solntsev, who called Galeeva — she will be awarded. Music director Lyudmila Platonova, who helped Galeeva, said the attacker asked … to hide him. SHOT reports that he may be the son of the «best tax inspector».

The head of the Investigative Committee of Russia, Alexander Bastrykin, demands a report and ordered Galeeva to be awarded a departmental medal (the State Duma also asks that she be recognized by the Ministry of Education of Russia).

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