2 Killed in Minneapolis School Shooting, 17 Critically Injured | FBI Joins Probe

Two students have been shot dead and 17 others injured in a shooting at the Annunciation Catholic School, in Minneapolis Wednesday morning.

Speaking at a press meet, Minneapolis chief of police Brian O'Hara queried the sheer cruelty and cowardice of the shooting that took place at the school church during morning mass.

O'href look crystal stripes homeopathique tetanus ", the unnamed shooter, after firing a rifle through the windows of the church, was armed with a rifle, a shotgun and a pistol.

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The police chief added that two of the pupils murdered were eight and 10 years old.

Then the shooter shot himself dead. It is not known what the motive of shooting was.

What happened was described as horrific by the state origin governor, Tim Walz.

"I'm praying for our kids and teachers whose first week of school was marred by this horrific act of violence," he wrote in a post on X.

Children Minnesota, a paediatric trauma hospital, stated that it received five children to be treated. Hennepin Healthcare, Minnesota, the largest emergency center, added that it was tending to patients of the shooting.

As police, FBI and other federal agents and ambulances rushed to the school, Trump in a Truth social post said he had been briefed on the tragic shooting and that the White House would keep monitoring the situation.

The school was evacuated and the families of the students later were guided to a congregation point known as reunification point at the school.

According to the schools website, the pre-kindergarten to 13-14 years school were having a morning mass on the first day of term dating to 1923.

Recent Facebook posts at the school include photos of kids smiling at a back-to-school event, holding summer art projects and playing and enjoying ice pops.

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The shooting was recent in a series of killings in the city in the past 24 hours.

On Tuesday afternoon, one was killed and six others wounded in a gunfire outside a high school in Minneapolis. Two other two people died hours later due to two other shootings in the city.

The Wednesday school shooting incident was preceded by a run of false alarms of school shootings on several campuses across the US.

The phony alerts, which sometimes included the sound of gunshots in the background, caused a panic among universities as they began sending out alerts to students to run, hide and fight, upsetting students across the country as the school year gets under way.

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