ArmInfo. Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan sent a telegram of condolences to the American leader Donald Trump, in connection with the tragedy in a secondary school in Parkland, Florida.
According to the press service of the head of Armenian state, Sargsyan expressed his support to the friendly people of the United States, the families of the victims, wished for the fortitude, and wounded the soonest recovery. On the eve, in high school in Parkland, in Florida, there was shooting, as a result of which at least 17 people were killed and several were injured. The shooting in the school in Florida has become the most bloody in the number of victims since 2012. In the attack on the school in Sandy Hook in 2012, 26 people were killed. Since the beginning of 2018 in the US, there have been six shooting cases, which resulted in the death or injury of students. According to reports, the suspect in the attack 19-year-old Nicholas Cruz began shooting from a semi- automatic rifle AR-15 on the street, and then entered the building. He was detained about an hour and a half after the incident began. According to the sheriff of Broward County Scott Israel, of the total number of victims in 17 people, 12 were killed inside the school, three more - outside the building, two died in the hospital. It is possible that the number of victims will increase: three victims are in critical condition. As the sheriff told, the shooter was expelled from school because of problems with discipline.