A teacher has subdued a male student who shot and wounded another student in a high school cafeteria in the US state of Illinois, police say.
The shooting happened at Mattoon High School about 11.30am on Wednesday. Police say the suspect, a male student, is in custody. Officials said the injured student is in stable condition at a local hospital.
The Mattoon Journal-Gazette reports that police were clearing the high school room by room. Students were being bused to a nearby school to be picked up.
The names and ages of the suspect and the student who was shot weren't immediately released.
School officials say their buildings were on a soft lockdown as a precaution.
Mattoon is about 290km south of Chicago.
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