Two children aged 8 and 10 have been killed and 17 people injured
when a gunman opened fire on schoolchildren attending Mass at a Catholic
school in the United States.
The police chief of Minneapolis, Minnesota, said that of the people injured
in the Wednesday morning attack, 14 are children and two were in critical
condition.
It confirm that, all the children being treated are expected to survive their
injuries.
Local authorities have not yet discerned a motive for the attack and said
the shooter, armed with a rifle, a shotgun and a pistol took his own life and
appears to have acted alone.
Nevertheless, the FBI said that it is probing the attack as a potential act of
terrorism.
