Boy kills teacher and self in Mexico school


  "It's a tragedy. It's very, very sad that a boy of 11 can come to school with two guns," Zermeno told local television.
  Television images showed police and soldiers surrounding the school.
  Miguel Riquelme, governor of the state of Coahuila, where Torreon is located, told a news conference that the boy, whose mother had died some years ago, had not had problems at the school. "He was well behaved, but he told some of his classmates that 'Today was the day,'" he said. "And what we can observe is that the boy was influenced by a video game."
  Riquelme said the boy had apparently been influenced by a first-person shooter game, "Natural Selection," and had worn a t-shirt emblazoned with its name during the attack. Riquelme said he believed the boy had tried to "recreate" the game.
  Experts have long debated whether there is a link between violent video games and aggressive behaviour. Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador offered his condolences to the relatives of the victims and said more needed to be done to strengthen family life and prevent such events from happening in future.
  Though homicides have reached record levels in Mexico during the past two years, school shootings are unusual. By contrast, there were more than a dozen school shootings last year alone in the United States.