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Florida school shooting: How an Indian-American teacher saved her students

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Teens, who walked out from the direction of the high school, are escorted by police following a shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland. Photo: AP/PTI

BS Web TeamAgencies New Delhi
A quick-acting Indian-American maths teacher is being hailed for saving the lives of her students during the shooting rampage at a Florida high school that left 17 dead.

When an alarm sounded for the second time on Wednesday afternoon, Shanthi Viswanathan shut the doors to her algebra classroom, made the students crouch on the floor and covered the windows, keeping them out of the reach and sight of the gunman, the Sun-Sentinel reported.

"She was quick on her feet. She used her knowledge. She saved a lot of kids," Dawn Jarboe, the mother of one of Viswanathan's students, told the newspaper.

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