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| One girl dead and one wounded in shooting at Texas school | |
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| A girl at a high school in western Texas shot a fellow pupil before fatally turning her gun on herself, according to local police. | |
| Officers told WABC the incident happened in a toilet before am at Alpine High School in Brewster county. | |
| The campus was evacuated while other schools were placed on lockdown and law enforcement officers launched a hunt for the shooter. | |
| The school, in the western desert region of Texas about 200 miles wast of El Paso, has about 280 pupils. | The school, in the western desert region of Texas about 200 miles wast of El Paso, has about 280 pupils. |
| The shooting comes two weeks after pupils returned after the summer vacation. | The shooting comes two weeks after pupils returned after the summer vacation. |
| Elizabeth Carter, a lieutenant at the Texas Department of Public Safety, confirmed that someone brought a gun onto the Alpine High School campus on Thursday morning. | Elizabeth Carter, a lieutenant at the Texas Department of Public Safety, confirmed that someone brought a gun onto the Alpine High School campus on Thursday morning. |
| Ruth Hucke, a spokeswoman for Big Bend Regional Medical Centre in Alpine, said hospital personnel were tending to three victims. | |
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