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Pakistani girl among dead in US school shooting

Updated on: 20 May,2018 07:56 AM IST  |  Santa Fe
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Sheikh was among at least 10 schoolchildren killed when a gunman opened fire at the Sante Fe High School, about 50km southeast of Houston, on Friday morning

Pakistani girl among dead in US school shooting

Sabika Sheikh. Pics/AP
Sabika Sheikh. Pics/AP


Sabika Sheikh, a 17-year-old Pakistani student on a foreign exchange programme in the United States, was among those killed in the Sante Fe school shooting, her family and the programme have confirmed.


Dimitrios Pagourtzis
Dimitrios Pagourtzis


Sheikh was among at least 10 schoolchildren killed when a gunman opened fire at the Sante Fe High School, about 50km southeast of Houston, on Friday morning. Seventeen-year-old Dimitrios Pagourtzis was being held on a capital murder charge after authorities say he fatally shot 10 people and wounded at least 10 others at his high school in Santa Fe, about 50 kilometres southeast of Houston.

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