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Keywords: Euro International School, School Shooting

Gurgaon: Till Tuesday afternoon, Ravinder Tyagi used to be waiting outside his son Abhishek's school in the afternoon to pick him up and take him home. But on Tuesday, he is sitting outside Gurgaon's Pushpanjali Hospital, waiting for his 14-year-old son's body.

“I got a call from school saying your son has been shot and when I reached they told me he had been taken to Pushpanjali Hospital. Here, I got only his dead body,” said Tyagi.

Abhishek Tyagi was shot dead inside his school by two of his own classmates of the Euro International School.

According to the police, two boys - Akash and Vikas - waited for school to get over and then one of them pulled out a gun, aimed it at Abhishek and pumped five bullets into him.

The corridors of the school were crowded with other students getting ready to go home and luckily none of them were injured.

Police say the boys told them that Abhishek used to threaten and harrass them which is why they shot him dead with Akash's father's revolver.

“They had a fight three or four days ago where Abhishek slapped them. That's when they decided to kill him,” said Satish Bala, DCP, Gurgaon.

The school's website claims that the entire campus, including the classrooms are monitored by closed circuit cameras but the authorities say they were helpless in an situation like this.

“What I was informed was that when this student (Abhishek) was coming downstairs, he was grabbed by two other students and shot. There was no such thing (as enmity). It was a regular quarrel, like it happens between kids.

Otherwise, We were not informed of any incident from Class VIII, which could have caused such a big thing,” said Satyavir Yadav, Chairman

Euro International School.

The two boys who were involved in the shooting have been detained by the police. Officials say that their parents might also be called in for questioning.

It's a first for a school in India with a student shot dead by his own classmates but what sets this apart from all the shootings in schools abroad is that it was a planned move aimed at only one person.

For parents across the country, this will be a real scare for their own children's safety.