MIAMI: Twenty people were injured when a gunman opened fire at a Florida high school on Wednesday, with dozens of police and emergency officials surrounding the building while students fled.

Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, 70 kilometres north of Miami, had been placed on a “code red” lockdown. The sheriff’s office said on Twitter that the shooter was at large.

Live television showed students running and walking away from the school, weaving their way between large numbers of emergency vehicles including police cars, ambulances and fire trucks.

Published in Dawn, February 15th, 2018

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