Published on, Aug. 28 -- August 28, 2025 2:22 AM

Two children aged eight and 10 have been killed and 17 people injured when a gunman opened fire on schoolchildren attending Mass at a Catholic school in the United States, authorities say. The police chief of Minneapolis, Minnesota, said that of the people injured in the Wednesday morning attack, 14 are children and two are in critical condition. Authorities have not yet discerned a motive for the attack and said the suspected gunman - armed with a rifle, a shotgun and a pistol - took his own life. "This was a deliberate act of violence against innocent children and other people worshipping," Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O'Hara said during a news conference. "The sheer cruelty and coward...