Nine-year-old quizzed over shooting

  • 12 years ago
An eight-year-old girl shot by another pupil at a Washington state elementary school is rushed to hospital by air ambulance.

Police took a boy of nine into custody over the incident in the city of Bremerton.

The girl was shot shortly before school ended for the day.

It happened in a classroom at the Armin Jahr elementary school.

Staff at the Harbourview Medical Center in Seattle where the wounded girl was taken declined to release any details about her condition.

Paul Chapman, Reuters

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