Students from Annunciation Church and School in Minneapolis are returning to their classrooms Tuesday, weeks after a shooter opened fire during a back-to-school mass.

Two children were killed and 21 people, most of them children, were injured on Aug. 27 when a person with multiple weapons shot students and adults as they worshipped at the start of the school year. Students tried to shield others and took cover under pews as bullets, shrapnel and glass flew around them.

Classes resumed for preschoolers last week. On Tuesday, teachers and staff will welcome more students to the building for some “on-campus activities” and a “modified schedule,” according to the school.

In a statement, Annunciation leaders said they would focus students’ first hours back in the building on “activities cent

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