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| Nevada student kills teacher in deadly school shooting | |
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| A student at a Nevada middle school shot a teacher dead and wounded two other students before turning the gun on himself, police have said. | |
| Officials have not identified the deceased or injured and have said police fired no shots. | |
| The incident occurred at 07:15 local time (14:15 GMT) shortly before the scheduled start of classes. | |
| Students from Sparks Middle School and a nearby primary school were evacuated and classes were cancelled. | Students from Sparks Middle School and a nearby primary school were evacuated and classes were cancelled. |
| A student told local media he witnessed the shooting outside on the basketball courts. | |
| 'Horrific' | 'Horrific' |
| "I thought it was a firecracker at first but the student was pointing the gun at the teacher after the teacher told him to put it down," Kyle Nucum, 13, told the Reno Gazette-Journal. | "I thought it was a firecracker at first but the student was pointing the gun at the teacher after the teacher told him to put it down," Kyle Nucum, 13, told the Reno Gazette-Journal. |
| "Then the student fired a shot at the teacher and everybody ran away… While we were running we heard four or five more shots." | "Then the student fired a shot at the teacher and everybody ran away… While we were running we heard four or five more shots." |
| Police said 150-200 officers responded to the shooting. | |
| A spokeswoman for Renown Regional Medical Center said two male children were brought to the hospital. At a midday press conference, police said one student was out of surgery and the other was doing well. | |
| At an evacuation pick-up point, parents were reunited with children, some of whom were in tears, the Associated Press reported. | At an evacuation pick-up point, parents were reunited with children, some of whom were in tears, the Associated Press reported. |
| "We came flying down here to get our kids," said Mike Fiorica, whose nephew attends the school. "It's really chaotic. You can imagine how parents are feeling. You don't know if your kid's okay." | "We came flying down here to get our kids," said Mike Fiorica, whose nephew attends the school. "It's really chaotic. You can imagine how parents are feeling. You don't know if your kid's okay." |
| In a statement, Nevada Governor Brian Sandoval said he was "deeply saddened to learn of the horrific shooting at Sparks Middle School this morning". | In a statement, Nevada Governor Brian Sandoval said he was "deeply saddened to learn of the horrific shooting at Sparks Middle School this morning". |
| Vegas club shooting | Vegas club shooting |
| The local education authority held a session earlier this year on safety measures in its schools after 26 people, including 20 children, were killed at a primary school in Newtown, Connecticut, in December. | |
| In a country where fatal shootings are almost a daily occurrence, even that massacre did not lead to nationwide gun control measures. | |
| Elsewhere in Nevada earlier on Monday morning, a man allegedly opened fire in a Las Vegas nightclub after being denied a refund for an entry fee, killing a patron who tried to intervene, police said. | |
| A security guard and a manager at Drai's After Hours, a club at Bally's Las Vegas Hotel and Casino, were injured and taken to hospital, police Sgt John Sheahan said. | |
| The suspect is also in hospital with unspecified injuries. Police believe he acted alone. |