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A massive police operation is under way following the latest deadly attack at a US educational institution.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n A manhunt is under way for the perpetrator behind a shooting attack at Rhode Island\u2019s Brown University in the United States that killed two people and wounded nine, eight of them critically.<\/p>\n A shelter-in-place order was in effect early Sunday on the campus of the prestigious Ivy League university and surrounding neighbourhoods in Providence, as law enforcement searched for the assailant.<\/p>\n list of 4 items<\/span>end of list<\/span><\/section>\n Here\u2019s what we know so far.<\/p>\n On Saturday afternoon, a suspect with a firearm entered Brown\u2019s Barus and Holley building, home to the school of engineering and the physics department, where students were taking exams.<\/p>\n Two people were killed and eight critically injured when the attacker opened fire, with a ninth sustaining injuries from bullet fragments, officials said. The victims are yet to be publicly identified, although the university president, Christina Paxson, has said she was told they were students.<\/p>\n University authorities became aware of the shooting at about 4:05pm local time (21:05 GMT), when emergency responders received a 911 call, Providence Mayor Brett Smiley said.<\/p>\n Seventeen minutes later, the university issued its first emergency update, warning that there was a gunman near the engineering building and advising those present to silence their phones and hide.<\/p>\n Law enforcement swept the building, but the suspect had left the scene.<\/p>\n Officials have released a video of the as-yet unidentified suspect, a male possibly in his 30s and dressed in black.<\/p>\n The Providence deputy police chief, Timothy O\u2019Hara, said the attacker might have worn a mask, but officials were not certain.<\/p>\n Smiley said officials did not believe there was any \u201cspecific, ongoing threat\u201d posed by the attacker, who is believed to have fled along a usually busy street of restaurants and coffee shops.<\/p>\n More than 400 law enforcement personnel have been deployed in the hunt, canvassing the local area while a lockdown order remains in place on the campus and surrounding neighbourhoods.<\/p>\n Agents from the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives have been drawn into the effort, working alongside local and state police.<\/p>\n Police said investigators had retrieved shell casings from the scene of the shooting and were also looking into why the target was selected as part of the investigation.<\/p>\n The US president told reporters at the White House that he had been briefed on the \u201cterrible\u201d situation.<\/p>\n \u201cAll we can do right now is pray for the victims and for those that were very badly hurt,\u201d Trump said.<\/p>\n He published a retraction on his online platform, Truth Social, after erroneously posting that a suspect had been detained, echoing a similar incorrect claim by the university in the early hours after the attack.<\/p>\n Brown, a member of the prestigious Ivy League of elite private universities in the northeastern US, is one of the oldest universities in the country.<\/p>\n Founded in 1764, it has 11,000 students and a highly selective admissions process, with only about 5 percent of undergraduate admissions accepted in the latest intake.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n A massive police operation is under way following the latest deadly attack at a US educational institution. A manhunt is under way for the perpetrator behind a shooting attack at Rhode Island\u2019s Brown University in the United States that killed two people and wounded nine, eight of them critically. 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