Thousands gather for funeral prayers in Pakistan’s Peshawar after a school rooftop collapse killed at least 34 children and a teacher and injured more than 50 people. Police have attributed the collapse to weak infrastructure.
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“We are stunned and heartbroken by this senseless tragedy,” Bend-La Pine Schools Superintendent Steven Cook said in a statement.
“No words can adequately express the grief our community is experiencing.”
Local law enforcement responded to reports of an active shooter at Silver Rail Elementary in Bend, Oregon, at 12:59 local time, Bend Police Department spokeswoman Sheila Miller told reporters.
The first call indicated that an unknown suspect had shot into a car, she said. Photos released from the scene show a red truck with bullet holes.
Minutes later, the local county dispatch received a flood of 911 calls and law enforcement were sent to the scene.
The suspected shooter was shot dead at around 13:02pm, Miller said.
While police said the shooter was a local 16-year-old boy, they declined to add further details pending the ongoing investigation.
Authorities have indicated that the shooter was killed by gunfire, though details remain scant about the attack.
Published On 15 Oct 202615 Oct 2026
At least four people have been killed, including three children, in a shooting at an elementary school in Oregon, part of the northwestern United States, according to statements from law enforcement to CBS and CNN.
The shooting on Thursday took place at Silver Rail Elementary school in the city of Bend, about 160km (100 miles) southeast of Portland.
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Authorities have said the shooter is dead, though it is unclear whether he is among the four people included in the initial death toll.
“We’re in the process at this time of going room by room and evacuating each of the people who are in that school,” said Sheila Miller, the communications manager for the Bend Police Department on Thursday. “This is the kind of thing we never want to see happen in Bend. It’s devastating.”
Miller said authorities received a call about a shot fired into a car outside the school at 12:59pm local time (19:59 GMT) and arrived on scene within minutes.
The suspect was shot and killed shortly after, though Miller said she did not know whether police or a bystander had subdued the alleged assailant.
The number and condition of those injured were not immediately known.
Kash Patel, the director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), said in a post on social media that the agency was on the scene assisting local law enforcement in the investigation.
“We will make every resource they need available,” he wrote.
Oregon Governor Tina Kotek also said she was closely monitoring the situation.
Jeff Merkley, who represents Oregon in the US Senate, was among the political leaders to offer condolences in the wake of the shooting.
“My heart is with the Bend community and all of the students and families affected. No one should have to fear violence at school,” he wrote in a post on the social media platform X.