19 students and 1 teacher killed in Texas elementary school shooting
At least 19 students and a teacher died after an 18-year-old gunman opened fire on Tuesday in an elementary school in Texas.
The shooting at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, about 135 kilometres west of San Antonio, was the deadliest shooting at a U.S. grade school since December 2012, when a gunman killed 20 children and six adults at Sandy Hook Elementary in Newtown, Conn.
Uvalde Police Chief Pete Arredondo said there were "several injuries," although it was not immediately clear how many people were wounded.
Family members gathered outside the school and the town's civic centre for word on the school's 600 students.
(William Luther/The San Antonio Express-News/The Associated Press)
A woman cries as she leaves the Uvalde Civic Center on Tuesday in Uvalde, Texas, in the wake of a shooting at an elementary school in that city that left 19 students and a teacher dead.
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