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7 shot, including 2-year-old, outside Philadelphia school

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Police say a 2-year-old girl was among seven people wounded in a shooting outside a school in Philadelphia. The Philadelphia Inquirer reports shots were fired shortly before 6 p.m. Thursday in the city’s Strawberry Mansion neighborhood. The 2-year-old was listed in stable condition at a hospital. She had been struck in the thigh. Five teenage boys were also injured and hospitalized. One, 15, was in critical condition and the rest were stable. A seventh victim was a 31-year-old woman. She was also in stable condition. A motive was not immediately known and there were no arrests.

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