Indian boy shot dead in second school shooting
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A boy was shot dead at a school in a central Indian village by an older student on Thursday, police said, less than a month after a similar deadly shooting at a school outside New Delhi.
Until recently, school shootings were almost unheard of in India.
The two boys, one about 15, the other about 13, started fighting after an exam at their government-run school in Chorwari village in the east of Madhya Pradesh state, police said.
The older boy then shot and killed the younger boy, said AK Soni, inspector general of the local police. The suspected killer has been arrested, he said.
In December, police arrested two boys at a private school outside the Indian capital for shooting dead their classmate.
- Reuters
