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A gunman who used a firearm stolen from a ‌police officer to wound a teacher ​and a girl ‌at a school in southern Thailand's ‌Hat Yai ⁠district ‌Wednesday has been detained, ‌authorities said.The 17-year-old suspect entered Patongprathankiriwat School in ⁠Songkhla Province's Hat Yai earlier in the day, appearing agitated, the provincial government said in a statement.The suspect has a sister at the school, police commander Teerasak Chaiyotha said, but a motive has ​yet to be determined.A female teacher was critically injured and had undergone surgery and was now in ‌an intensive care ⁠unit, while ​a teen girl was shot in the ​waist and was now in stable condition, he added.In a photograph shared by police, the suspect, barefoot and wearing shorts and a T-shirt, is shown pinned to the ground by armed officers.He had earlier attacked a police officer and stolen his firearm, provincial governor Ratthasart ‌Chidchoo said, adding that ‌the suspect had ⁠a history of substance abuse and was discharged ⁠from a ⁠psychiatric hospital in December. In a video obtained by Reuters, armed police officers storm the three-storey school building as gunfire rings out.Another video shows students running down staircases while police - some ​wearing helmets, black bulletproof vests, and carrying rifles - shout: "Go home kids, it's safe."Gun violence and ownership are not uncommon in Thailand. In 2002, a former police officer killed 36 people, including 22 children, in a gun-and-knife attack at a nursery in the country's east. 

Three people were killed, and eight others injured in a mass shooting in Southport, North Carolina. US media reported today that three people were killed when an unknown gunman opened fire at the port. Meanwhile, the condition of the eight injured is not yet known. Mass shootings are one of the most prominent security and social challenges facing the United States in recent decades. This phenomenon has become increasingly frequent, claiming dozens of lives annually. These incidents occur in a variety of locations, including schools, universities, shopping malls, workplaces, and public events.

A black-clad gunman killed two children and wounded 17 other people Wednesday, when he opened fire on students at a Minneapolis Catholic school, authorities said.The assailant, a man in his early 20s, fired dozens of rounds through the church windows and then took his own life, officials said. He was armed with a rifle, a shotgun and a pistol, they said."This was a deliberate act of violence against innocent children and other people. The sheer cruelty and cowardice of firing into a church full of children is absolutely incomprehensible," Minneapolis police chief Brian O'Hara told reporters.The shooting occurred two days after school started at Annunciation Catholic School, a private elementary school with about 395 students connected to a Roman Catholic church in a residential area in the southeast part of Minnesota's largest city.Local TV showed parents ducking under yellow police crime tape and leading students out of the school.Officials said the shooter did not have an extensive criminal history. They did not provide his name and said they were trying to identify a motive.Law enforcement was investigating multiple online videos to determine if they were posted by the shooter, according to two sources who spoke on condition of anonymity.Local hospitals said they were treating 15 children and two adults, with many suffering gunshot wounds.School shootings occur on a regular basis in the US, spurring ongoing debates about gun laws and school safety. There have been more than 140 such incidents so far this year, according to the K-12 School Shooting Database."Don't just say this is about thoughts and prayers right now. These kids were literally praying. It was the first week of school. They were in a church," Minneapolis mayor Jacob Frey said at a news conference, visibly angry.US President Donald Trump said he had been briefed on the shooting and said the FBI was on the scene. "Please join me in praying for everyone involved!" he said on social media.The US department of homeland security is in touch with local authorities and monitoring the situation, Homeland security secretary Kristi Noem said on social media.There have been three other shootings in the midwestern city since Tuesday afternoon, including one at a high school, that have together left three people dead and seven wounded, according to police.Wednesday's shooting did not appear to be related to the others, O'Hara said.Minneapolis has experienced a significant rise in homicides in the years following the 2020 police killing of George Floyd, which prompted nationwide protests, civil disturbances and staffing shortages in the city's police department. The city recorded 54 homicides last year, down from 71 in 2021 but well above the 29 recorded in 2019.In June, Minnesota also experienced an incident of political violence, when a gunman posing as a police officer allegedly assassinated a Democratic state lawmaker and her husband in their home, and wounded another lawmaker and his wife.The suspect was arrested after a massive two-day manhunt and faces state and federal murder charges.Minnesota state law requires background checks for all gun sales and the state as a whole has a gun death rate below the national average, according to Everytown for Gun Safety, a gun violence prevention group.