Parents await news of their children after a reported mass shooting at Annunciation Church on Wednesday in Minneapolis. AP

MINNEAPOLIS — At least five children were injured in a shooting Wednesday during the first week of classes at a Minneapolis Catholic school, authorities and a hospital said. Gov. Tim Walz called the violence “horrific.”

The Minneapolis city government said the shooter had been “contained” after the gunfire at Annunciation Catholic School and there was no longer any “active threat” to residents.

Walz said on social media that he had been briefed on the shooting.

“I’m praying for our kids and teachers whose first week of school was marred by this horrific act of violence,” Walz wrote on X.

Children’s Minnesota, a pediatric trauma hospital, said in a statement five

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