Six people were killed people and many injured in a shooting in Nashville, Tennessee, according to local authorities.

On Twitter, the city’s fire department says there are “multiple patients” from an incident at a local school.

The tweet added that the area remains “an active scene”.

Nashville police report they engaged the shooter and the person is now dead.

Parents have been asked to meet at a nearby location.

The Covenant School in Nashville, where the incident took place, is a private Christian school for students in pre-school through the sixth grade, when students are roughly 11 or 12 years old.

According to its website, the school has approximately 200 students. Local media reported that it implemented an “active shooter” programme in 2022.

In a statement, Tennessee’s House Democratic Caucus said that its members are “praying for the children and their families who were shooting victims at the Covenant School”.

“Our thoughts are with the families of the entire school community and surrounding neighbourhood,” Chairman John Ray Clemmons said.

Freddie O’Connell, a Nashville mayoral candidate, said that Nashville has now “joined the communities that have experienced a school shooting”.

According to data compiled by Education Week, there were 12 school shootings in 2023 through 23 March that have resulted in deaths or injuries in the US.

source bbc.com