Iowa school shooting wounds multiple people, Sheriff says

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Several people were wounded on Thursday morning in a shooting at an Iowa high school on the first day of classes after the holiday break, officials said...

(1330 GMT) and resulted in "multiple victims," Dallas County Sheriff Adam Infante said at a news briefing..

After the briefing, both CNN and NBC News reported that the shooter was dead, citing law enforcement officials..

Few students and faculty were in the building at the time, since classes had not yet begun, Infante said, which may have curtailed the number of victims...

Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy, an entrepreneur who founded a biotechnology company, had been scheduled to hold a rally in Perry but changed the event to an in-person prayer after reports of the shooting, a campaign spokesperson said.. Iowa will hold the first statewide contest for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination in 11 days...

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