Five teenagers, aged 14 to 17, were taken to hospital on Monday (November 15) after being shot in a shooting near a high school in Aurora, Colo., City police said.
Police in Aurora, a suburb of Denver, reported on their Twitter account "
several people with gunshot wounds
" after a shooting by "
an unidentified suspect
" who fled the scene.
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"A
total of five people were taken to hospital, aged 14 to 17
," police then said, adding that "
the shooting did not take place inside the school
" but nearby.
The state of Colorado, in the western United States, suffered two of the worst killings in American history.
In 1999, two teenagers killed 12 classmates and a teacher at their Columbine high school.
And in 2012, a heavily armed man had shot dead 12 people in a cinema in Aurora, during the screening of a film dedicated to Batman, "
The Dark Knight Rises
".
