School principal shot by gunman ‘risked himself to protect pupils’

Ahmir Jolliff was killed in the school shooting (Erica Jolliff via AP)

An Iowa principal who was critically injured in a school shooting put himself in harm’s way to allow his pupils to escape after the teenage gunman opened fire, authorities have said.

Perry High School principal Dan Marburger and six others, including two staff members and four teenage pupils, were injured in the shooting on Thursday morning that left one 11-year-old dead.