Children, teacher shot at US primary school
A teenager has allegedly shot and wounded two children and a teacher at a primary school in the US state of South Carolina, before being taken into custody.
The shooting happened early in the afternoon on Wednesday at Townville Elementary School in Anderson County, located near the Georgia state line about 160 km northeast of Atlanta.
The circumstances of the shooting are not known but a dead body was found on a dirt road near the school, the local coroner told CBS News.
The two injured students were airlifted to the hospital and the teacher was driven by ambulance, police said.
Other students were loaded onto busses and evacuated to a nearby church, local media said.
One child was flown to Greenville Memorial Hospital's emergency trauma center, health system spokeswoman Sandy Dees said.
Further details were not immediately available.
The United States has long been plagued by shootings at schools and colleges, some of which have claimed dozens of lives.
In 2012, a gunman shot dead 20 children and six educators at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut.
The deadliest mass school shooting was in 2007, when a gunman killed 32 people at Virginia Tech University.
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