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1st LD: 2 children, 1 teacher wounded at South Carolina school shooting

Xinhua, September 29, 2016 Adjust font size:

Two children and a teacher were wounded on Wednesday in a shooting incident at a South Carolina school, according to local authorities.

The suspected shooter was a teenager and was in custody after shooting the three victims at an elementary school in Townville, South Carolina, according to a spokesman for local county's Emergency Management Department.

The severity of the injuries remained unclear at the moment.

Due to lax gun control measures, past shooting incidents claimed dozens of lives on campus across the country. In 2012, a heavily armed gunman forced his way into Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, and started a shooting rampage, killing 20 children and six adults. He later killed himself. Enditem