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7 students killed in two US universities as violence strikes

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Update: 2022-11-14 21:19:37
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Seven university students are dead and at least one gunman is on the run following weekend violence that struck two US campuses in the states of Idaho and Virginia, authorities have said.

Police are hunting for the student suspect in a shooting that left three people dead and two others wounded at the University of Virginia about 160km southwest of the nation's capital Washington.

The campus in Charlottesville, Virginia was locked down earlier while helicopters and police searched for a man considered to be "armed and dangerous," the UVA Office of Emergency Management tweeted.

Counselling and psychological support would be made available to students and faculty, UVA president Jim Ryan said in a statemen.

Virginia Governor Glenn Youngkin said state officers were coordinating with the campus police department and local authorities.

"Please shelter in place while the authorities work to locate the suspect," he wrote on Twitter.

More than 2,000 miles to the west in the Rocky Mountain state of Idaho, police are investigating a separate incident in which four students were found dead yesterday in a home near the University of Idaho campus, believed to be the "victims of homicide."

Officers responded to a call in the town of Moscow, near the University of Idaho, about an unconscious individual.

"Upon arrival, officers discovered four individuals who were deceased," police said in a statement.

"It is with deep sadness that I share with you that the university was notified today of the death of four University of Idaho students living off-campus believed to be victims of homicide," University of Idaho president Scott Green said in a statement.

Meanwhile, near Michigan's largest city Detroit, police are scouring Oakland University "to pursue two armed suspects on campus," the school said in a Twitter statement as they urged students and faculty to stay away.

School shootings are alarmingly common as part of a broader wave of gun violence in the United States, where the proliferation of firearms has skyrocketed in recent years.

In May an 18-year-old gunman in Uvalde, Texas burst into Robb Elementary School and killed 19 students and two teachers, in an attack that shocked the nation and renewed calls for gun reform.

After yesterday's UVA shooting, US Senator Tim Kaine of Virginia said he was "heartbroken to hear of another Virginia community devastated by gun violence."

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