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Two students injured in gunfire in Philadelphia school
Published in Saudi Press Agency on 18 - 01 - 2014


Two teenage students were injured by gunfire
inside a Philadelphia high school Friday and police were looking for
the suspected shooter who fled the scene, a police official said, according to dpa.
It was the second school shooting in the United States this week and
the third since December 13.
The shooting occurred right before 3:30 pm (1930 GMT) at Delaware
Valley Charter High School, a police officer in the East Coast city
said in broadcast remarks.
The victims, one male and one female, were each 15 years old and were
in stable condition with non-life-threatening injuries. The officer
said he believed each had suffered one wound from a hand gun.
A SWAT team put the school on lockdown and cleared it, releasing
students one by one. Police declared that it was no longer an active
shooter situation.
With the increasing number of school shootings in the US, police now
take a much more aggressive role in entering schools as quickly as
possible when called.
Earlier this week in the south-western state of New Mexico, a
12-year-old student shot and seriously injured two fellow students at
a middle school in the town of Roswell. The December 13 shooting
occurred in a suburb of Denver and left a 17-year-old high school
student dead. Another student received minor injuries before the
accused attacker shot and killed himself.
According to stoptheshootings.org, an online school shooting
database, there have been 387 school shootings in the US since 1992.
One of the worst occurred in December 2012 when 20 children and six
educators were shot dead at Sandy Hook elementary school in Newtown,
Connecticut.
Efforts to bring about stricter gun controls, led most recently by US
President Barack Obama, have come up against strong resistance by the
gun lobby which insists that private ownership of military-style
large clip rifles of the sort used by the Newtown shooter is
protected by the US constitution.


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