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Kentucky school shooting: Two teenagers dead and 17 injured | |
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Two people have been killed and 17 injured in a high school shooting in the US state of Kentucky. | |
A 15-year-old girl died at the scene at Marshall County High School in the town of Benton and a 15-year-old boy died in hospital, said Kentucky's governor. | |
The unidentified attacker was a 15-year-old male student, who was arrested and is in custody. | |
State police said he was detained about 15 minutes after opening fire at 08:00 local time on Tuesday. | |
The lone attacker was a student at the school who opened fire in a common area before classes started, according to local media. | |
He will be charged with murder and attempted murder, said officials. | |
"To walk in, the backpacks laying around, the phones laying around, going off, it's indescribable," said Marshall County Attorney Jeffery Edwards, reports the Louisville Courier-Journal. | |
"I've been doing this for 25 years. It's not like anything I've experienced in my life." | |
Mr Edwards told the newspaper that the shooter had appeared to open fire at random. | |
Governor Matt Bevin called the attack a "tremendous tragedy" in a statement posted on Twitter. | |
"It is unbelievable that this would happen in a small, close-knit community like Marshall County," he said. | |
"As there is still much unknown, I encourage people to love on each other at this time. | |
"Do not speculate, but come alongside each other in support and allow the facts to come out." | |
The school has 1,146 students. Benton is about 130 miles (210 km) north-west of Nashville, Tennessee. | |
It is the second gun attack in an American school in as many days. | |
A 15-year-old girl was shot by a 16-year-old classmate in her high school cafeteria on Monday in the small Texas town of Italy. | |
The girl is recovering in hospital; her attacker fled but was later arrested. |