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    December 08, 2011

2 Dead in Virginia Tech Shooting

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   Virginia Tech police officers console one another as they move toward
   the scene where a fellow police officer was killed in a parking lot on
   the campus of Virginia Tech in Blacksburg, Virginia, December 8, 2011.
   Photo: AP
   Virginia Tech police officers console one another as they move toward
   the scene where a fellow police officer was killed in a parking lot on
   the campus of Virginia Tech in Blacksburg, Virginia, December 8, 2011.

   Authorities in Blacksburg in the southern U.S. state of Virginia say a
   police officer and another person have been shot and killed on the
   campus of Virginia Tech University, where a single gunman killed 32
   people in 2007 before committing suicide.
   A campus-wide alert issued Thursday urged people to stay indoors and
   advised visitors to stay away from the school.
   The school said on its website that the officer was shot on campus
   during a routine traffic stop, adding there were witnesses to the
   shooting. The school says the shooter ran toward a parking lot on
   campus where a second person was found dead.
   A search is continuing for a suspect.
   Earlier this year, federal officials fined the school, formally known
   as Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, for waiting too
   long to notify staff and students during the 2007 rampage, which was
   the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history.

   Some information for this report was provided by AP, AFP and Reuters.

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