Gunfire erupts at Mexican private school, 5 wounded

19/1/2017 2:30

        A 15-year-old student opened fire with a gun at a private school in the northern Mexican city of Monterrey, seriously wounding himself, a teacher and three other students.
        
        A state security spokesman said four of the injured, including the shooter himself, had bullet wounds to the head and were in extremely serious condition.
        
        A school video showed the male middle-school student first shot the 24-year-old teacher, then shot a 14-year-old girl and a 14-year-old boy in the head, and a 15-year-old classmate in the arm. He then pointed the gun at classmates before shooting himself in the head.
        
        The boy brought the gun from home. It was unclear how he got the .22 caliber pistol into the school. Mexico had once had a program to checked book bags at school entrances, but in many places it has fallen into disuse.
        
        Mexico has largely been spared the phenomenon of school shootings that has hit the United States.