A Class 10 boy shot dead a Class 8 student with a locally made illicit revolver following a quarrel in the school in Madhya Pradesh’s Satna district Thursday.
In another deplorable incident, an eighth class student of a Government school in Satna district of Madhya Pradesh was killed on Thursday when his senior schoolmate allegedly shot at him in the school premises in the second such crime in the country in a month.
In a repeat of the Gurgaon school shooting last month, police said the assailant whipped out a country-made revolver and gunned down the 15-year-old victim, an eighth-standard student in the school in Chorbani village.
It was not immediately known what provoked the shooting during school hours but there were reports that it occurred after a punch-up 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,.Police have registered a case and investigations are on the move but no arrests have been made so far.
On December 11, an eighth standard 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 bitterness was supposed to have triggered this incident.
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