ANXIOUS parents accompanied their children to school or kept them at home on Tuesday, a day after a sniper linked to the murder of six adults critically wounded a school pupil.

Parents in the suburbs around Washington anguished over their children’s safety today after a sniper, who murdered six adults last week, critically wounded a schoolboy.

A 13-year-old boy was fighting for his life today, after the Washington-area sniper struck as the boy’s aunt dropped him off at a Maryland school.