Exterior of Robb Elementary School, in the city of Uvalde, Texas. Robb Elementary
A shooting at an elementary school in Uvalde, in central Texas, has left at least two children dead and a dozen injured, hospital sources have confirmed to local media.
The attack was recorded on Tuesday morning at the Robb educational center, where the police quickly moved, the account of the School District, the institution on which it depends, said on Twitter.
Authorities asked residents to avoid the area and put the rest of the city of 16,000 people under a security protocol.
Minutes later, police reported that they had apprehended the shooter.
The students at the center were being moved to an adjoining building, to be reunited with their families.
The local authorities, however, initially asked the parents not to go to the civic center to pick up the minors immediately because they considered that the emergency was not over.
“They will be notified when they can do so,” they reported on Facebook.
The event coincides with the publication of a report that reveals that shootings have multiplied in the United States during 2021. A count by the FBI, the federal investigative agency, indicates that 61 such episodes were recorded last year.
These had been 40 in 2020. The shootings left 103 people dead last year and another hundred more injured.
These figures do not include the perpetrators.
One in five active shooter situations results in a mass shooting in which at least three people are killed.
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