- Title: School shooting in Peru leaves one dead - police
- Date: 19th March 2019
- Summary: LIMA, PERU (MARCH 19, 2019) (REUTERS) POLICE VEHICLE DRIVES DOWN ROAD PAST THE SCHOOL WHERE SHOOTING OCCURRED VARIOUS, POLICE SEEN AT SCHOOL VARIOUS, STUDENTS AND PARENTS DEPARTING SCHOOL PEOPLE HUGGING WOMAN CRYING (SOUNDBITE) (Spanish) FATHER OF STUDENT AT SCHOOL, JOSE GUTIERREZ, SAYING: "(There was a) shooting by a student who brought a weapon, (and) nobody had searched the student." POLICE AT SCHOOL ENTRANCE (SOUNDBITE) (Spanish) UNIDENTIFIED STUDENT AT SCHOOL, SAYING: "They killed a boy, and what we know is that the first thing we heard was not a shot, we only heard something fall, and then the teachers started to get nervous, and they told us not to go out, but they didn't tell us why we shouldn't go out, they just said to stay there. Later the psychologist came and explained how things were to us, and only then did we understand how this happened." EXTERIOR, POLICE STATION WHERE SUSPECT WAS TAKEN (SOUNDBITE) (Spanish) LIMA POLICE CHIEF, GENERAL MARIO ARATA, SAYING: "An adolescent using what appears to be a firearm inside the Trilce High School caused an injury and the death of another adolescent." ARATA SPEAKING TO JOURNALISTS EXTERIOR OF HOSPITAL WHERE WOUNDED STUDENT WAS TAKEN VARIOUS, PEOPLE AT HOSPITAL
- Embargoed: 2nd April 2019 21:59
- Keywords: Peru school shooting mass shooting police high school
- Location: LIMA, PERU
- City: LIMA, PERU
- Country: Peru
- Topics: Crime/Law/Justice,Crime
- Reuters ID: LVA001A6OV0HZ
- Aspect Ratio: 16:9
- Story Text:One student was killed and another wounded in a shooting in a Peruvian high school on Tuesday (March 19).
Lima police chief General Mario Arata confirmed the death of a student, saying, "an adolescent using what appears to be a firearm inside the Trilce High School caused an injury and the death of another adolescent."
Local media report police sources have said the shooting may have been an accident that occurred when a boy brought his father's firearm to school.
The shooting happened in the morning and the wounded student was taken to the Villa El Salvador Emergency Hospital.
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