A teenager was injured in a shooting near an abandoned building in Yekaterinburg.

In Yekaterinburg, an unknown person shot at a child with an air gun near an abandoned hotel in the Uralmash district. On July 30, Izvestia was informed by the mother of the injured boy.

The incident occurred on the evening of July 28. Two teenagers rode up to the building on a bicycle and stopped to play by a pit on the road. At that moment, gunfire rang out from the upper floors. Three bullets landed in the back of 11-year-old Vova, and another shell grazed his ear.

"A bearded head immediately appeared from somewhere on the floor, and he told them, 'Take the bikes and get out of here, otherwise my partner will fire a more serious weapon,'" the schoolboy's mother shared.

She stressed that the bullets could have hit directly in the ear or hit the temple — then the child would most likely have remained deaf or could have died. The building from which the attacker fired is an object of cultural heritage — according to the woman, it has been empty for at least 15 years.

"We were standing here, sorting through different stones. I didn't want to hurt anyone and I didn't want to spoil anything," the boy himself shared.

After the incident, the child was taken for a medical examination, and his parents filed a police report. The prosecutor's office has organized an investigation into the incident.

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The press service of the Moscow Region Prosecutor's office reported on May 16 that a 14-year-old boy was injured as a result of a shooting opened by a man at one of the playgrounds of Lyubertsy near Moscow. The victim was taken to a medical facility, and a criminal case was opened in accordance with Article 213 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation ("Hooliganism").