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Students shot at Chicago school

10 January 2009 03:46am

Five people have been sent to hospitals after a reported shooting at a high school on Chicago's South Side.

Chicago Fire Department spokeswoman Eve Rodriguez said three people are in a serious condition and two are in a critical condition. She said the five male victims had been inside Paul Laurence Dunbar Vocational Career Academy.

She declined to comment further.

The Chicago Tribune and WBBM-AM report that the victims had been shot.

Police had no immediate comment and no-one answered the telephone at the school.