Original sentence: According to Mouin Gasser, a 45-year-old teacher, the area around the school was hit four times in about two minutes by the shells that landed just outside the school; much shrapnel spreaded everywhere and hit the people inside the school
Edited sentence: According to Mouin Gasser, a 45-year-old teacher, the area around the school was hit four times in about two minutes by the shells that landed just outside the school; much shrapnel spread everywhere and hit the people inside the school