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In a school in the US state of Tennessee, according to the authorities, a student shot at police officers and was killed by them.

The officers were alerted about a possible shooter at the Austin-East Magnet High School in Knoxville, said the chief of the state criminal investigation office, David Rausch, on Monday.

The police placed the student in a toilet and asked to come out.

However, he opened fire, whereupon the officers shot back.

The student reportedly died at school.

An injured officer had to undergo an operation.

According to the police, there were no other dead or injured.

The building was said to have been secured.

Mayor Indya Kincannon said she spoke to the injured officer.

He was conscious and in good spirits.

The police warned the population to stay away from the school building.

Families could meet students on a baseball field behind the school, she said.

The media showed numerous police and rescue vehicles at the crime scene.

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School councilor Bob Thomas said unaffected students had been turned over to their families.

The authorities were gathering information about the "tragic situation" and would later release more information.

Several serious incidents involving gun violence since mid-March

The United States is repeatedly rocked by deadly gun attacks in schools.

At Columbine High School in Littleton, two teenagers shot and killed twelve classmates and a teacher in 1999.

They then committed suicide.

There have been several serious incidents involving gun violence in the United States since mid-March.

Eight people were killed in massage parlors in the greater Atlanta area.

Ten people were shot dead in a supermarket in Boulder, Colorado.

Four people, including a nine-year-old, were killed in an office building in Orange, California.

In a factory in Texas last week, an employee shot and killed a man and injured six others before he was arrested.

US President Joe Biden last week called gun violence in the United States a "plague" and "eyesore" for the country and called for stricter gun controls.