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US college alert amid 'shooting' | US college alert amid 'shooting' |
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A college in the US state of Texas is on lockdown amid reports of several people injured in a shooting. | |
Jed Young, a spokesman for Lone Star College in the north of Houston, told CNN that two students had been wounded in cross-fire. | |
He said there were two armed suspects, one of whom had also been shot and was in custody, while the other had fled. | |
News helicopter footage showed ambulances at the scene and police swarming over the campus. | |
Mr Young said that while a second suspect was sought, "the situation was under control". | |
A spokesman for the nearby Ben Taub General Hospital in Harris County told the BBC that two casualties had been admitted to that facility. | |
Local broadcaster KHOU reported that police were searching a wooded area nearby for a potential suspect. | |
Amanda Vasquez told KPRC television that she believed the shots had been fired in a hallway. | |
"They sounded very close, the shots. Five or six gunshots," she said. | |
"I just ducked under the table as fast as I could and hoped for the best. I saw one of the shooters when he was already under police control." |