Several injured in mass shooting at Tennessee school, shooter killed

Washington, March 27 Several students at a school in US' Tennessee state were injured in a shooting attack on Monday before the perpetrator was shot dead by the police, reports said.

The attack was reported from the Covenant School in Nashville, a private Christian school for students in pre-school to sixth grade, when the students are roughly 11 or 12 years old, the BBC reported.

The Nashville Fire Department, in a tweet, said that there are "multiple patients" from an incident at a local school, and the area remains "an active scene".

Nashville police said they had "engaged" the shooter, who is now dead.

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