Several people were shot and killed by a hostage taker who opened fire at an Amish school in Pennsylvania on Monday, police said, in the third fatal shooting at a United States school in a week.
”There are a number dead. The exact number I am not sure at this point. There are also a number of wounded. And the shooter is not at large,” said Ralph Striebig of the state police.
CNN said the incident took place at a school in Nickel Mines.
The shooting in Pennsylvania followed reports earlier on Monday of lockdowns at two schools in the Las Vegas area.
Police and trained dogs had deployed around Mojave High and Elizondo Elementary schools in North Las Vegas, Nevada, and police were looking for an armed youth, KLAS-TV reported.
Monday’s violence followed two gun-related incidents that shook US schools last week.
On Friday, a 15-year-old student fatally wounded his school’s principal in western Wisconsin. A drifter in Colorado on Wednesday took six female high school students hostage, molested them and then shot one to death and killed himself as police closed in. — Reuters