TIMESONLINE: A lone gunman has killed at least 30 people at an American university today in the bloodiest campus shooting in US history.
Police said there had been "at least 20 fatalities" in two locations at Virginia Tech university but government officials later told American news outlets that death toll could be as high as 32.
Describing the killings as a tragedy of "monumental proportions", the university said that a lone gunman killed one person and wounded several others at a dormitory shortly after 7am this morning before going on to kill the rest of his victims in the engineering department more than two hours later.
Reports from the scene said 28 students and teachers had been wounded in the attacks, including some who leaped from windows to avoid the shooter, who was reportedly killed by police. Lone gunman kills at least 30 in US campus massacre by Sam Knight
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4 comments:
Saddening yet so predictable.
Hardly on the scale of Beslan, though.
Having a causus beli does not make mass killing acceptable any more than this was.
Not being on the scale of Beslan hardly makes it less tragic though, does it? The slaughter of innocent lives is tragic however many have been killed or badly injured.
This terrible tragedy is another reflection of the declining influence of religious/moral standards in Western society. Although I do not agree with Muslims on many things, I do agree with them on this.
So do I, Cybercrusader, so do I.
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