Two children shot dead, 14 injured in Minneapolis church attack

A parent hugs her son during a shooting at the Annunciation Church in Minneapolis on Wednesday.

MINNEAPOLIS: Two children were shot dead when a gunman attacked a Minneapolis church on Wednesday, with 17 people injured, 14 of them children, police said.

The gunman “began firing a rifle through the church windows toward the children sitting in the pews at the mass,” Minneapolis police chief Brian O’Hara told reporters.

The pupils were marking the first week of the school year when the attack occurred.

BY: The Times Union