Russian boy and girl livestream shootout with police after running away together

Two schoolchildren live-streamed themselves in a shootout with police before turning the guns on themselves.

The 15-year-olds were found dead inside a house in the northwestern Russian Pskov region after the standoff.

The boy, named Denis, shot the mother of the girl, who was named Katya, in the leg.

Denis was seen firing at police in the horror footage, which was live-streamed on Periscope

The gunfight happened as police surrounded a home. Denis is believed to have shot Katya's mother in the leg earlier

The gunfight was broadcast on live video app Periscope, and pictures of them firing at police was also posted to Instagram. 

The National Guard special forces said in a statement to TASS news agency that they found 'the bodies of a girl and a young man with clear signs of suicide', stressing they did not open fire.

On the chilling Periscope live stream, Katya is seen stating: 'We have zero options.'

The couple transmitted footage of their last hours in which they smoked, drank and answered classmates' messages

And Denis added: 'If we don’t surrender, we die. But if we surrender, we will never see each other again.'

Such incidents are highly unusual in Russia, where access to guns is tightly restricted.

'This is a terrible tragedy. We're looking into the circumstances and the details of what happened,' Russian children's ombudswoman Anna Kuznetsova told TASS.

The duo, who were found dead by police, both held weapons in the chilling footage

Investigators said they were trying to find out the reason for the 'desperate step' by the teenagers.

Investigators said police were called to the house in the village of Krasniye Strugi as part of the search for a missing teenager, only for a police car to come under gunfire.

Katya said in the footage posted on Periscope that there were guns in the house because her stepfather is 'in the special forces'.

The footage showed the couple had access to rifles and a large haul of weapons

Denis is shown firing a rifle from the window of the wooden house at a police van.

Special police spent hours negotiating then stormed the house using stun grenades and found the teenagers shot dead, investigators said.

The teenagers transmitted footage of their last hours in which they smoked, drank and answered classmates' messages.

They referred to conflicts with their parents and said they had been holed up in the house for three days.

Denis said that he had also shot Katya's mother in the leg, and the couple said they feared decades in jail if they surrendered.

Katya's mother had been infuriated when the teenager attended a sleepover without permission. 

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