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At least 7 students hurt in US school shooting

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Keith Coffman, Reuters

DENVER, United States - At least 7 students were hurt on Tuesday in a shooting at a Denver area school, law enforcement officials said, and 2 suspects were taken into custody.Deputies from the Douglas County Sheriff&#x27;s office responded to reports of gunfire at a science and technology school in the community of Highlands Ranch, 25 miles (40 km) south of Denver, shortly before 2 p.m. Mountain Time (2000 GMT), the sheriff&#x27;s office said on Twitter.Seven students, and possibly an eighth, were taken to a hospital with injuries, said Douglas County Undersheriff Holly Nicholson-Kluth. It was unclear whether there were any fatalities, she said in a brief media briefing.Two suspects were arrested, and law enforcement officers were searching for a possible third suspect, she said.A man who called into local KOA radio told the station that 2 people burst into his son&#x27;s classroom and opened fire, wounding 2 students. The father said the victims were alive and that students were able to disarm the shooters.A student who was not identified told Denver station KUSA-TV outside the school after the shooting that the violence had left him &quot;a bit shaky&quot; and &quot;scared,&quot; but &quot;glad that I didn&#x27;t get hurt.&quot;Colorado Governor Jared Polis said he was sending additional state law enforcement officials to the scene.&quot;We are making all of our public safety resources available to assist the Douglas County Sheriff&#x27;s Department in their effort to secure the site and evacuate the students,&quot; Polis wrote on Twitter.The gun violence in Colorado came 1 week to the day after a 22-year-old gunman opened fire on the Charlotte campus of the University of North Carolina, killing 2 people and wounding 4 others before the gunman was disarmed and arrested.The Colorado school, which combines elementary, middle and high school on one campus has 1,850 students enrolled, according to the district. There was no immediate information about the ages or identities of the victims or the suspects.The sheriff&#x27;s department directed parents to go to a nearby recreation center to pick up their children.Local television showed dozens of police and fire vehicles surrounding the school as deputies conducted a room-by-room search of the campus.The Denver Post reported that all schools in the area where placed on lockdown while police and fire crews responded to the scene.Some of the worst mass shootings in the United States have occurred in Colorado.In 1999, 2 students killed 13 people at Columbine High School before committing suicide in what remains one of the deadliest school shootings in US history. In 2012, a man opened fire at a movie theater in Aurora during a screening of a &quot;Batman&quot; film, killing 12 people and injuring scores more.

DENVER, United States - At least 7 students were hurt on Tuesday in a shooting at a Denver area school, law enforcement officials said, and 2 suspects were taken into custody.

DENVER, United States - At least 7 students were hurt on Tuesday in a shooting at a Denver area school, law enforcement officials said, and 2 suspects were taken into custody.

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At least 7 students hurt in US school shooting

Keith Coffman,

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Published May 08, 2019 06:14 AM PHT

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