MOSCOW/ NALCHIK. Jan 27 (Interfax) - Russian children's rights commissioner Pavel Astakhov has blamed a domestic dispute for Thursday's incident in a school in Nalchik, the capital of the Republic of Kabardino-Balkaria.
"Kabardino-Balkaria's Interior Ministry has explained that it was a domestic dispute that grew into a fight involving weapons. Its participants are young people aged between 19 and 30 years old. All of them have been detained," Astakhov said on his Twitter page on Friday.
For his part, a spokesman for the Russian Investigative Committee's department in Kabardino-Balkaria said he had no information confirming a domestic dispute and a brawl.
"Investigators are working at the site. They are establishing the circumstances of the incident," he said.
According to earlier reports, three unknown people wearing ski masks and armed with pistols equipped with a silencer and an automatic weapon burst into a Nalchik secondary school's gym on Thursday evening.
"The attackers entered the school gym, where seven men were exercising. The attackers tied them up and cut the throat of one of them," the spokesman said.
The killed person was tentatively identified as a serviceman.