Two people were shot and injured Monday in a high school in Virginia, local police reported, yet another school shooting in the United States.
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Two people were taken to hospital with gunshot wounds that did not appear to be life threatening,
" Newport News town officials said in a statement.
Students at Heritage High School were evacuated and directed to tennis courts, police said.
After a year largely spent taking online classes, the return to school in recent weeks has rekindled fears of school shootings, a real scourge in American society since the massacre in Columbine, Colorado, in April 1999. .