NICKEL MINES, Pa.-
Police surrounded a one-room schoolhouse Monday in response to reports of multiple shooting victims, a television station reported, and a state police official says “a number” of people were shot to death at an Amish school.
“There are a number of people dead. … The exact number I do not know yet,” state police Cpl. Ralph Striebig said.
WGAL-TV said the incident occurred in southeastern Lancaster County.
About three dozen Amish people were standing behind a police line, and at least two ambulances had left the scene, the station said around noon. Television news helicopters showed a person being taken away on a stretcher to a waiting medical helicopter.
The Lancaster County 911 Web site reported that dozens of emergency units were dispatched to a “medical emergency” at 10:45 a.m. Monday.
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