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Speaker 1: Another school shooting in the US, this time Minneapolis at

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Speaker 1: a Catholic school. Reporter is Tony Waterman, a US correspondent

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Speaker 1: joining US Tony, what's the lightest on this?

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Speaker 2: Well, just an absolutely horrific situation playing out early this morning.

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Speaker 2: The school was actually at mass. It was the first

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Speaker 2: week of school. They were there celebrating the start of

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Speaker 2: a new school year, and according to officials, a gunman

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Speaker 2: came up to the side of that church and shot

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Speaker 2: through the windows directly at students. Two children have now

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Speaker 2: been confirmed dead, eight and ten years old, killed essentially

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Speaker 2: while sitting in the pew of a church praying. Fourteen

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Speaker 2: other children were injured. Officials say that two of them

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Speaker 2: are in critical condition right now, and also three adults

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Speaker 2: were injured. Officials say that the shooter acted alone and

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Speaker 2: then it seems as if he shot himself self inflicted gunwound.

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Speaker 2: They say he was in his early twenties, that he

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Speaker 2: does not have an extensive criminal history, but he really

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Speaker 2: showed up there fully prepared for this. Police said that

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Speaker 2: he showed up with a rifle and a pistol and

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Speaker 2: that he was firing all three of the weapons that

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Speaker 2: he had on hand.

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Speaker 1: I know it's early tiny, but any idea why, or

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Speaker 1: whether it was a former student or anything like that.

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Speaker 2: Officials say they don't know if this is a former

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Speaker 2: student or a former employee at the school. They said

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Speaker 2: that he left behind a vehicle that they are searching

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Speaker 2: through trying to get any sort of information they can

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Speaker 2: about what a potential motive would be in this case.

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Speaker 1: All right, Tony, appreciate that. Up that Tony Woodman, a

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Speaker 1: US correspondent.

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