FLORID – US police officers are on the scene at Marjory Stoneman DouglasHigh School in Parkland, Florida after receiving reports of gunfire withinthe school.
The school is on lock down, the Coral Springs Police Department saidon Twitter. Students and teachers have been advised to “remain barricadedinside until police reach you.”
Lots of ambulances are present at the high school, and several people havebeen seen being taken out of the school perimeter on stretchers.
The Broward Sheriff Office said: “Here’s what we know so far: deputies areresponding to reports of a shooting at Stoneman Douglas High. There arereports of victims.”
Over the first 23 days of January there were 11 school shootings, accordingto the New York Daily News. The tragedies have occurred so frequently thatactivists say the incidents have numbed Americans to the regularity of gunviolence.