PTI
Satna, Jan 3 (mb): A Class VIII student of a government school in Satna district of Madhya Pradesh was killed on Thursday when his senior schoolmate allegedly shot at him on the school premises in the second such crime in the country in a month.
In a replay of the Gurgaon school shooting last month, police said the Class X student whipped out a country-made revolver and gunned down the 15-year-old victim. The school is located in Chorbani village.
It was not immediately known what prompted the shooting during school hours but there were reports that it occurred after a scuffle between the two students, police said of the incident reminiscent of the gun violence in schools in the US.
The injured student was rushed to the hospital but succumbed to his injuries on the way.
The exact cause of the quarrel was not yet known, Satna superintendent of police Kamal Singh Rathore said.
Police registered a case and investigations were underway but no had been made.
On December 11, a Class VIII student of an elite school in Gurgaon was killed when two classmates allegedly pumped five bullets into him at point blank range in perhaps the first such shooting in a school in the country. Old grudge was believed to have triggered this incident.
Becoming more of a rule than an exception?