BAKU, (Reuters) – Thirteen people were killed at a  university in Azerbaijan yesterday when a gunman went from  floor to floor firing on teachers and students after the bell  rang for morning classes. The gunman, a Georgian citizen of Azeri origin described as  a loner by local media, was among the dead.

The government said it did not see a political motive behind  the shooting at the prestigious State Oil Academy in Baku,  capital of the mainly Muslim former Soviet republic which  exports oil and gas to Europe from the Caspian Sea.