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    Georgian national behind Baku academy massacre - embassy

    18:30 | 30/ 04/ 2009

    TBILISI, April 30 (RIA Novosti) - The Georgian ambassador to
    Azerbaijan confirmed on Thursday that a Georgian national was
    responsible for a massacre at a college in Baku earlier in the day.
    "Official sources have confirmed the information," Nikoloz Natbiladze
    said.
    At least thirteen people were killed and 11 wounded when a gunman
    opened fire at the State Oil Academy in Azerbaijan's capital on
    Thursday morning, according to the country's health ministry.
    Azerbaijan's Interior Ministry named the shooter as Georgian national
    Farda Gadyrov, born in 1980 and of Azerbaijani origin.
    Gadyrov was reported to have killed a security guard and cleaner after
    entering the academy. He then continued shooting indiscriminately at
    students and staff with a Makarov pistol while going up a staircase.
    Azerbaijan's ANS television channel said the gunman had killed 17 and
    wounded 13, including Azerbaijani, Turkish and Syrian nationals,
    before killing himself.
    The academy is a major international center for the training of oil
    industry specialists. Former students include Soviet-era secret police
    head Lavrenty Beria and Vagit Alekperov, president of Russia's largest
    independent oil producer, LUKoil.
    A probe into the incident has been launched under the supervision of
    Azerbaijani President Ilkham Aliyev, who has already conveyed his
    condolences to the families of those people killed in the attack.
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