A gunman was killed and 2 students were injured in a shooting incident at a school in Northern California

Two students were injured in a shooting at an Oroville elementary school, the Butte County Sheriff's Office said Wednesday.

The shooting happened at the Feather River School of Seventh-Day Adventists, about 70 miles north of Sacramento, the Sheriff's Office announced in a news alert shortly before 2 p.m.

Deputies found two injured students. The extent of the children's injuries is not yet clear, but authorities have confirmed that both have been hospitalized. Sheriff Kory Honea told news station KSBW-TV that one of the children was taken to the hospital by helicopter. Their ages and genders have not been released.

The shooter, identified as an adult, died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound, according to authorities.

Students from this school were taken to the Nazarene church near Oroville, where they would be reunited with their parents.