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A shooting at an elementary school in the United States has left three children and a teacher dead. The gunman, a 16-year-old minor, was shot and killed by a resident.

Here is a report from Kim Minpyo.

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Police and emergency responders have rushed to a rural elementary school.

At around 1 p.m. local time on the 15th, while classes were in full swing, multiple reports of a mass shooting came in at an elementary school in Bend, Oregon.

[911 Dispatch Audio: Reports of an active shooter are coming in. The condition of the patients is currently unclear, and police are responding.]

The gunman shot open the locked front gate of the school, burst into a classroom, and opened indiscriminate fire, killing three children aged 5, 8, and 11 who were in class, along with a teacher.

Another 7-year-old child and a teacher in their 50s suffered serious injuries.

[Kathy Schill-Smith / Silver Rail Elementary School Teacher: The children were so terrified, and seeing their faces was truly difficult. I tried in every way I could to calm the children down.]

A resident who witnessed the gunman shooting at a parked vehicle and entering the school shot and killed the suspect before police arrived.

[Mike Krantz / Bend Police Chief, Oregon, USA: Responding officers reported that a citizen who witnessed the suspect entering the school pursued him inside the building and fired shots.]

The deceased gunman turned out to be a 16-year-old adolescent living near the school.

How the underage perpetrator acquired the firearm and the motive for the crime remain unknown.

Bend, a small city with a population of around 100,000, has been plunged into deep sorrow over the horrific tragedy.

[Melanie Kebler / Mayor of Bend, Oregon, USA: There are truly no words to describe the loss we are suffering today.]

CNN reported that this is the 52nd shooting incident at a U.S. elementary, middle, high school, or university this year, leaving a total of 32 dead and 50 injured.

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