4 folks died in a capturing in a purchasing district within the southern Russian metropolis of Krymsk, the state-run TASS information company reported on Thursday, citing sources in native legislation enforcement companies.

TASS stated the 4 lifeless included the gunman. Native prosecutors have been despatched to the scene to open an investigation.

Footage circulating on social media confirmed a person firing as he walked down a road. On the finish of the video he fires from shut vary at somebody mendacity on the bottom. Reuters was unable to confirm the footage.

Krymsk is a small metropolis in Russia’s southern Krasnodar area close to the Crimean peninsula, which Russia unilaterally annexed from Ukraine in 2014.