<div><span style="font-size: 1rem;">Seven university students were dead and at least one gunman was on the run Monday following weekend violence that struck two US campuses in the states of Idaho and Virginia, authorities said.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>Police were hunting for the student suspect in a shooting that left three people dead and two others wounded at the University of Virginia about 100 miles (160 kilometers) southwest of the nation's capital Washington.</div><div><br></div><div>The campus in Charlottesville, Virginia was locked down early Monday while helicopters and police searched for a man considered to be "armed and dangerous," the UVA Office of Emergency Management tweeted.</div><div><br></div><div>A student at the university identified as Christopher Darnell Jones Jr was suspected to have carried out the shooting on campus Sunday night, UVA president Jim Ryan said in a statement.</div><div><br></div><div>More than 2,000 miles to the west in the Rocky Mountain state of Idaho, police were investigating a separate incident in which four students were found dead Sunday in a home near the University of Idaho campus, believed to be the "victims of homicide." - AFP&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>