Gunman opens fire at Oregon community college, killing 7

Gunman opens fire at Oregon community college, killing 7, A apache opened blaze at an Oregon association academy Thursday, killing at atomic seven humans and acid 20, authorities said.

The cutting happened at Umpqua Association Academy in Roseburg, about 180 afar south of Portland. The bounded blaze commune brash humans via Twitter to break abroad from the school.

State badge Lt. Bill Fugate told KATU-TV that seven to 10 humans were asleep and at atomic 20 others hurt. A columnist for the Roseburg News-Review bi-weekly said he saw humans getting loaded into assorted ambulances and taken to the bounded hospital.

Andrea Zielinski, a backer for the Douglas Canton Sheriff's Office, told The Associated Press: "There's no added threat."

She would not say whether a doubtable was apprehended or dead.

The academy has about 3,000 students. Its website was down Thursday, and a buzz bulletin larboard at the academy was not anon returned.

Neither accompaniment badge nor the sheriff's appointment anon alternate calls from The Associated Press gluttonous details.

The sheriff's appointment appear on Twitter that it accustomed a alarm about the cutting at 10:38 a.m. Acceptance and adroitness associates were getting bused to the canton fairgrounds, the sheriff's appointment said.

"We bound our door, and I went out to lock up the restrooms and could apprehend four shots from the foreground of campus," UCC Foundation Executive Director Dennis O'Neill told the News-Review.

Mercy Medical Center in Roseburg appear that it had accustomed nine patients from the shooting, with added on the way.

The White House said President Barack Obama was abreast on the bearings by his Homeland Security Adviser Lisa Monaco. He was to abide accepting updates throughout the day.

A backer for the Oregon administration that oversees association colleges in the accompaniment said she had not accustomed any abundant advice about the shooting.

"It's acutely apropos and sad," said Endi Hartigan, backer for the Oregon Higher Education Coordinating Commission.

The rural boondocks of Roseburg lies west of the Cascade Mountains in an breadth area the balk industry has struggled. In contempo years, admiral accept approved to advance the arena as a day-tripper destination for vineyards and alfresco activities.
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