Three children and three adults dead in shooting at Nashville school

Three children have died (Metro Nashville Police Department/AP)

Three children and three adults were killed in a shooting at a private Christian school in Nashville, Tennessee, on Monday, police said.

The female suspect was killed by police during a confrontation after the violence at The Covenant School, a Presbyterian school for about 200 pupils.

An active shooter event has taken place at Covenant School, Covenant Presbyterian Church, on Burton Hills Dr. The shooter was engaged by MNPD and is dead. Student reunification with parents is at Woodmont Baptist Church, 2100 Woodmont Blvd. pic.twitter.com/vO8p9cj3vx

— Metro Nashville PD (@MNPDNashville) March 27, 2023

The killings come as communities around the country reel from a spate of school violence, including the massacre at a primary school in Uvalde, Texas, last year, a pupil who shot his teacher in Virginia, and a shooting last week in Denver that wounded two administrators.