CHICAGO - AUTHORITIES say five people have been sent to hospitals after a reported shooting at a high school on the city's South Side.

Chicago Fire Department spokesman Eve Rodriguez says three people were in serious condition and two were in critical condition.

She says the five male victims had been inside Paul Laurence Dunbar Vocational Career Academy.

She declined to comment further.

The Chicago Tribune and WBBM-AM reports the victims had been shot.

Police had no immediate comment and no one answered the telephone at the school. -- AP