A student at a technical institute opened fire on his colleagues before killing himself in the worst massacre in the history of the peninsula, which resulted from the student's feeling of "humiliation," a former girlfriend said.
Another 40 people were injured when the 18-year-old student, Vladislav Roselyakov, opened fire at the Polytechnic Institute on Wednesday in Kerch, a town of 150,000 people, located in the far east of the peninsula, where he had just opened a bridge to Russia.
"We do not want to talk, we want to cry, the Crimean history will be divided into two - before and after October 17. We have to be strong, we have to be courageous," said Sergei Akisyonov, the prime minister of the peninsula annexed by Moscow, .
In Lenin Square in the center of the city, tables were covered with red covers off the statue of the Soviet leader.
Aksionov placed a red rose in front of each coffin during the funeral ceremony before the coffins were moved to the cemetery of the new city. Hundreds of students, including a wheelchair-bound woman, participated in the funeral.
And reinforced the security deployment, and closed all roads to the scene. Russian Health Minister Veronica Skfortsova said many of the wounded were "still in very critical condition."
Humiliation and distrust
A large number were wounded in an explosion packed with metal pieces. He was transferred to Russia for treatment. Investigators are working to find out the motivations of the young man and whether to move alone.
"He no longer trusts people since people started insulting him because he was not like others," his former girlfriend told RT television, declining to be identified.
Russian media reported that he had "grown up in a poor family" and his father had taken a seat while his mother worked in a hospital where the wounded were taken.
