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School shooting toll up

NICKEL MINES (Pennsylvania): Two more children died on Tuesday morning of wounds from the shootings at an Amish schoolhouse in Pennsylvania. Five children remained hospitalised after Monday's school shooting, America's third in less than a week, in a bucolic area of Lancaster county. The gunman, Charles Carl Roberts, shot himself dead as police stormed the schoolhouse. Roberts, apparently spurred by a grudge two decades old, wrote his wife what authorities described as suicide notes, took three guns and ammunition and went to the school ready for an extended siege. He had with him a stun gun, two knives, a pile of wood and a bag with 600 rounds of ammunition. A 9-year-old girl who had been taken to hospital in Delaware State died at 1 a.m. (local time) on Tuesday. A 7-year-old girl died about 4:30 a.m. on Tuesday in hospital in Hershey. Police said investigators were looking into other events in Roberts' background. Three girls, aged 8, 10 and 12, were flown to Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, where they were in critical condition on Tuesday. — AP

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