Seven killed as violence strikes two US universities

Seven university students were dead and at least one gunman was on the run on Monday following weekend violence that struck two US campuses in the states of Idaho and Virginia. Police were hunting for the student suspect in a shooting that left three people dead and two others wounded at the University of Virginia. The campus in Charlottesville, Virginia, was locked down early Monday while helicopters and police searched for a man considered to be armed and dangerous. A student at the university identified as Christopher Darnell Jones Jr was suspected to have carried out the shooting on campus.