March 7 (Reuters) - A student has died and two others were injured in a shooting at an Alabamahigh school on Wednesday that police are calling accidental, officials and local media said. The female student, 17, who attended Huffman High School in Birmingham, died en route to the hospital, according to officials and AL.com, an Alabama news website. The shooting coincides with heightened tension in schools after a gunman with an assault-style rifle killed 17 people at a high school in Parkland, Florida, on Feb. 14. It was one of the deadliest U.S. school shootings in United States, where dozens of massacres have occurred in recent years. Huffman is one of seven public high schools in Birmingham, the state’s most populous city.

Source: Huffington Post March 08, 2018 00:13 UTC