Two people were killed and another was wounded in a shooting Thursday night at a dormitory at South Carolina State University, a historically black college in the United States, prompting a lockdown of the campus, university officials said in a statement, Reuters reported.
The shooting was reported at around 9:15 p.m. local time in an apartment within a student housing complex, according to a statement posted on the university's Facebook page.
There was little additional official information immediately afterward, including whether the person who carried out the shooting was still at large.
"University officials have not yet confirmed the identities of the victims or the condition of the injured person," the statement said.
South Carolina State University, which has an enrollment of more than 3.000 students, is one of two historically black universities in Orangeburg, a riverfront college town about 40 miles southeast of Columbia, the capital of the US state of South Carolina, according to Reuters. The other is Claflin University.
A person who answered the university's public safety office hotline Thursday evening said he was unable to provide any information about the incident.
The university said it had asked the State Department of Law Enforcement to investigate the shooting, and that today's classes had been canceled.
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