Azerbaijan State Oil Academy shooting
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The Azerbaijan State Oil Academy shooting (Azerbaijani: Azərbaycan Dövlət Neft Akademiyasında terror hadisəsi) occurred on 30 April 2009, at the Azerbaijan State Oil Academy (ASOA), a public university in Baku, Azerbaijan. Twelve people were killed (students and staff members including the Deputy Principal of the institution) by an armed assailant and several others were wounded. A joint statement by the Azerbaijan Interior Ministry and Prosecutor General's Office identified the perpetrator as 28-year-old Farda Gadirov, a Georgian citizen of Azerbaijani descent.[1]
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Location | Azerbaijan State Oil Academy, Baku, Azerbaijan |
Coordinates | 40.3785°N 49.8485°E / 40.3785; 49.8485 |
Date | 30 April 2009 9:30 a.m. AZT |
Target | Azerbaijan State Oil Academy |
Attack type | School shooting, mass shooting, murder-suicide |
Weapons | Makarov PM |
Deaths | 13 (including the perpetrator) |
Injured | 13 |
Perpetrator | Farda Gadirov |
Two buses of special forces had arrived at the scene.[2] According to Ehsan Zahidov, a spokesman for Interior Ministry, the special troops conducted an operation while people reportedly having been held hostage were released.[3] Three cartridge belts with capacity of forty and seventy one bullets along with two magazines were taken from Gadirov's body.[4]