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A second student from the Florida high school targeted in a mass shooting has died in little more than a week, police said on Sunday.

The boy was believed to be a survivor of the massacre at Marjory Stoneman Douglas school on 14 February 2018 in which 17 people were killed and 17 wounded.

The South Florida Sun Sentinel newspaper quoted Tyler Reik, a spokesman for Coral Springs police, as saying that “out of respect for the family … we are not going to release the name. It’s a juvenile”.

Reik reportedly added: “I know he attended Stoneman Douglas. I can’t tell you if it’s related to the Parkland shooting. We don’t know the reasoning behind it. It’s still an ongoing investigation. It hasn’t even been confirmed as a suicide.”

The Miami Herald reported that a police source said the death was an “apparent suicide” and happened on Saturday night.

The boy’s death follows that of Sydney Aiello, 19, a survivor of the shooting who was given a diagnosis of post-traumatic stress disorder or PTSD, last weekend. Her funeral was held on Friday.

On Sunday David Hogg, the Parkland pupil who became a prominent leader of the March for Our Lives movement for gun control reform, tweeted: “How many more kids have to be taken from us as a result of suicide for the government / school district to do anything? Rip 17+2.”