Studen­ts were warned by the school's emerge­ncy alert system at 4:01 amWASHINGTON: Two people were injured in a shooting early on Friday at Southeastern Louisiana University, the university said, nine days after a massacre at a Florida high school sparked a national uproar over US gun violence. Gunshots fired, 2 individuals suffered non life threatening injuries,” the university said in a statement on Twitter. Students were warned by the school’s emergency alert system at 4:01 am, it said. “No present threat to campus community,” it said, adding that university police were investigating the incident. The incident at the university in Hammond, Louisiana, came amid a national debate over gun control sparked by the killing of 17 students and adults at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida on February 14.

Source: The Express Tribune February 23, 2018 15:45 UTC