In St. Petersburg, a man opened fire from the windows of a house

Eyewitnesses reacted to the shots, they contacted law enforcement agencies. As the TV channel noted, the police, in turn, quickly cordoned off the territory.

"I didn't see who was shooting, the police started chasing all the people away and saying, 'There's shooting here, get away from here,'" the newspaper quoted an eyewitness as saying.

Previously, there were no casualties as a result of the incident.

It is specified that the attacker shot in the courtyard of the house on the 10th line of Vasilyevsky Island, and therefore the street was blocked. The restriction was later lifted.

It is known that the man who started the shooting is drunk. He was detained and taken to a medical facility.

Earlier, on March 2, it was reported that in St. Petersburg A taxi driver shot his client with a traumatic pistol. The 35-year-old from St. Petersburg contacted the police the next day. The main directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation for the city clarified that measures had been taken to search for and detain the suspect.