A shooting rampage killed at least 32 students and injured 21 at Virginia Tech in Blacksburg, Virginia in the U.S. on Monday. According to head of the university¡¯s Korean student association Lee Seung-woo, a Korean student in the civil engineering doctorate program, Park Chang-min, was hit in the hand and side by bullets but was not critically injured.
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A CNN TV grab shows a police SWAT team at Virginia Tech in Blacksburg, Virginia on Monday. At least 31 people were shot dead in one of the deadliest school massacres in U.S. history. /AFP
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AP reported the massacre began at 7:15 a.m. when a gunman opened fired in the university¡¯s West Ambler Johnston Hall dormitory and later in a classroom. Lee said the association has been trying to identify the number of Korean casualties but found Park was the only one. There are some 463 Korean students - 163 in the master and doctorate program and 300 in the undergraduate school - at the college. Their number is even greater if the Korean-American students are taken into account, Lee added.
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Virginia Tech students watch from the doorway of McBryde Hall on the Virginia Tech campus in Blacksburg, Virginia as police infiltrate the area where a shooting rampage on Monday killed at least 30 people. /AP
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Commenting on reports that the killer was Asian, Lee said it was unlikely to have been Korean since few Korean students have weapons due to the difficulty of obtaining a gun license.
After the atrocity, the school canceled all classes and ordered students to stay in their dorms. The first shooting occurred at the university in last August when an escaped prisoner sneaked into the school and fired a gun killing a police officer during a manhunt. CNN said the worst college shooting massacre took place at Texas University in 1966, killing some 16 people.
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An unidentified man is restrained during a manhunt on the Virginia Tech campus in Blacksburg, Virginia on Monday, when a gun man opened fire in a dorm and classroom on the campus, killing at least 30 people. /AP
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(englishnews@chosun.com )
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