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MOSCOW â€” A student opened fire in a high school in northern Moscow on Monday, killing a police officer and a teacher and holding two dozen other students hostage before being captured by the police, a spokesman for Russiaâ€™s Interior Ministry said.

The shooting occurred at School No. 263 in the neighborhood of Otradnoye and forced the evacuation of hundreds of students. Others remained inside the school and another one adjacent to it as the police searched for the gunman. No students were injured.

â€œThe school secretary came in and she said not to let the children out,â€ Maria Shukvina, a ninth-grader at the school, said. â€œThen I heard a loud bang and she came back and told us to get our things and get out as quickly as possible.â€

The spokesman said at least one other police officer was injured when the student fired from a window of a biology lab, where he had held the hostages. As of Monday afternoon, the identity of the student had not been disclosed, nor had any possible motive for attacking the school.

School shootings are a rarity in Russia, and the events Monday prompted unnerving comparisons in Russian news accounts to those that have occurred in the United States.