Washington, Oct 25 (IANS) Two students were dead and
four injured in a shooting incident Friday morning at Marysville
Pilchuck High School north of Seattle, a coastal seaport city, in
Washington state, police said.
US authorities earlier confirmed
that the lone shooter, a student of the school in Marysville, was dead
from a self-inflicted gunshot wound after he opened fire on five other
people in the school's cafeteria, Xinhua reported.
The four injured students were rushed to hospitals, three in critical condition.
The
incident occurred at about 10.45 a.m. Live video pictures from the
scene showed students were escorted by police officers out from school
buildings.
The school has some 2,500 students.
Authorities
"are confident that there is only one single shooter," Marysville
police spokesman Robert Lamoureux told reporters, CNN reported.