Mga estudyante sa Virginia Tech, USA gi masaker, Patay!

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Carnage on US campus leaves 33 dead


By Magan Crane
Agence France-Presse
Last updated 06:37am (Mla time) 04/17/2007




WASHINGTON -- (5TH UPDATE) A gunman opened fire on classrooms at a US university Monday, killing at least 30 people before turning his gun on himself in the bloodiest school shooting in US history.

But police at Virginia Tech University could not confirm whether the same gunman was responsible for another shooting in a dormitory two hours earlier that left a man and a woman dead.

"We are working very, very hard to determine if these two incidents are related," campus police chief Wendell Flinchum told reporters.

Fifteen other victims were being treated at local hospitals.

Panic erupted on campus as shots and screams echoed from the engineering building, with witnesses reporting some students jumping from third and fourth story windows.
"Some of the doors were chained," Flinchum said.

One student told CNN a gunman went from door to door shooting into classrooms.

Student Michael O'Brien told Fox News he was walking across the school's drill field when he heard a gunshot and saw students fleeing the building.

"You could see students carrying what looked like bodies out of Norris Hall (the engineering building) and there were ambulances out there that drove down to pick them up and sped off towards the hospital," he said.

Flinchum gave only sketchy details of the killings at the 135-year-old university, but noted that victims were found in "multiple locations" in the classroom building.

Local television quoted witnesses as saying the gunman was a young Asian man, but little else was known about the shooter, including whether or not he was a student.

"We have not confirmed the identity of the gunman because he carried no identification on his person," Steger said.

US President George W. Bush lamented the loss of life at the university some 425 kilometers (264 miles) southwest of Washington.

"Schools should be places of safety and sanctuary and learning," he told reporters. "When that sanctuary is violated, the impact is felt in every American classroom and every American community. Today our nation grieves with those who have lost loved ones at Virginia Tech.

The carnage surpasses the 15 who died in the April 20, 1999 shooting at Columbine High School in Colorado that shocked the nation and world.

Monday's shooting rampage is overshadowed only by a 1927 bombing at a Michigan school that killed 38 children and seven teachers.

Virginia Tech, located amid rolling hills in the Blue Ridge mountains, canceled classes and locked down the sprawling engineering and research university which has some 28,000 students and more than 100 buildings spread across 2,600 acres (1,040 hectares).

The university hosts students from 35 countries and foreign students make up seven percent of the student body.

The chaos was captured in dramatic cell phone video footage better suited to a war zone than a university with the hail of bullets echoing in the distance.

Television showed heavily armed police rushing across the grounds while witnesses reported scenes of terror and panic with school officials urging people to stay indoors.

"The police officers were trying to, you know, settle everyone down and keep everything under control," Amy Steele, chief editor of the student newspaper, told CNN. "One of the injuries happened from a student jumping out of a window."

Some students were questioning why classes continued hours after the first shootings.

"I was very surprised of that," one unnamed student told Fox. "I was not too worried, but I do think that the school should have had everybody go home. Why didn't they shut down the campus?"

Flinchum said preliminary information indicated the first shooting was "domestic in nature" and that the decision was made not to cancel classes.

"You can second guess all day, but we acted on the best information we had at the time," he said.

The incident renewed concern over school security and access to guns that was rekindled last year by a rash of shootings. Virginia has some of the country's most lax gun laws and Virginia Tech itself is no stranger to violence.

In August, an escaped prisoner tried to hide on the campus, US media reported. A security guard and a policeman were killed before the man was re-arrested.

Virginia Tech's website also announced that a reward of 5,000 dollars had been posted on Sunday for information leading to the arrest of those behind two bomb hoaxes at the campus on April 2 and 13.

[Sovabon]

As of 7pm of 4/16 (US eastern Time), 33 people are confirmed dead while 27 are still confined in the hospital. grabeh!

[mango]

ABC 7 initial reports stated that the gunman could be an Asian- I sure hope he's not Filipino. Aguroy!

[cc_3125]

the assailant is 19 yrs. old, unsa kahay sud sa iyahg ulo nga nabuhat to nya?

[h23girl]

sabog cguro. yes hope dili filipino kay basin samot kalisod isulod sa US.

[pinoytayo]

Drug addict to siguro nga bata oi. If not psycho.

[edgeknife]

na buang na siguro na ang killer.

[dexterdal]

sa engineering building man iyang g pang pusil, nabuang cguro to sa math.

[pinoytayo]

ABC 7 initial reports stated that the gunman could be an Asian- I sure hope he's not Filipino. Aguroy!

He is chinese not filipino based on the cnn news karon sa tv.

[lestat1116]

korean ang killer 23 yrs old.