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    DEATHS IN AZERI UNIVERSITY SHOOTING

    Al-Jazeera
    http://english.aljazeera.net/ news/europe/2009/04/200943071838953121.html
    April 30 2009
    Qatar

    At least 13 people are reported to have been killed after armed men
    opened fire at a university in Azerbaijan.

    Ten people were also wounded after two men shot at students at
    the State Oil Academy in Baku, the capital, on Thursday, medical
    sources said.

    Local media reported that special forces had surrounded the university
    building after the attacks were launched just after classes began at
    9am (0400GMT).

    Police special forces and ambulances rushed to the scene and access
    roads were closed.

    Mursal Gamidov, the head of the Baku ambulance service, said that one
    of the assailants had committed suicide, but this was not corroborated
    by the government.

    Gamidov said that it appeared one gunman was a student of the academy.

    Bekir Belek, a Turkish student, said 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."

    "Everywhere was covered in blood, all corridors. There are many
    wounded," Belek said.

    "We were trying to escape but had to return when my friends were shot,
    we took them to hospital."

    Al Jazeera's Matthew Collin, in Tblisi, the capital of neighbouring
    Georgia, said the motive for the shootings was unknown.

    Oil and gas-producing Azerbaijan, a largely Muslim ex-Soviet Republic
    that borders Russia, is officially at war with neighbouring Armenia
    but there has been no recent incidents of violence over relations
    between the two nations.
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