Azerbaijan State Oil Academy shooting
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.
| Azerbaijan State Oil Academy shooting | |
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Wall of the Azerbaijan State Oil Academy after the shooting | |
| Location | Azerbaijan State Oil Academy, Baku, Azerbaijan |
| Coordinates | 40.3785°N 49.8485°E |
| 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. According to Ehsan Zahidov, a spokesman for Interior Ministry, the special troops conducted an operation while people reportedly having been held hostage were released. Three cartridge belts with capacity of forty and seventy one bullets along with two magazines were taken from Gadirov's body.