The death toll from the attack at a Kerch school has reached 17, Russian Investigative Committee spokesperson Svetlana Petrenko told Interfax on Wednesday.

"We currently have information on 17 people killed in the Kerch vocational school," Petrenko said.

Investigators and criminalists have already begun examining the site of the accident, she said.

"An initial examination of the bodies shows they died of gunshot wounds," Petrenko said.