国际英语资讯:Armed student opens fire in U.S. high school, killing 10 people_时事

国际英语资讯:Armed student opens fire in U.S. high school, killing 10 people

Abbott said different kinds of explosive devices were detected in a home and in a vehicle of the shooter. Several law enforcement agencies are working together to analyze the explosives.

Earlier in the day, an unnamed Santa Fe police officer told reporters the suspect shooter was in custody and another person was detained and questioned. "Both of them are students," he said.

The officer urged local residents to stay alarmed and call 911 when seeing something suspicious.

Local police also confirmed that a Santa Fe Independent School District officer was injured in the shooting and was under surgery with critical condition.

Several ambulances, including a mass casualty ambulance, along with multiple Life Flight helicopters, were seen at the site. Multiple victims were transported to a nearby hospital, some of them in critical condition.

Interviewed by media, several students said they had been trained what to do when a shooting happens, but never thought a real shooting would happen.

Santa Fe High School is located in Galveston County, about 54 km southeast of downtown Houston. There are about 1,400 students in the high school. Santa Fe is a city with a population of about 13,000.

The school was on lockdown Friday.

The county is about 360 km east of Sutherland Springs, Texas, where a gunman barged into a church last November and murdered 26 people.

According to tracking website Gun Violence Archive, 5,414 people were shot dead so far in 2018 in the United States and 9,819 people were wounded. There are altogether 21,804 shooting incidents in the country this year.