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Telegraph, 25 May 2022
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Nineteen children and two adults, including one teacher, were killed on Tuesday after a teenage gunman opened fire in a primary school in rural Texas.

The 18-year-old shooter, Salvador Ramos, entered Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, about 85 miles west of San Antonio, on Tuesday morning with a handgun and a rifle.

“He shot and killed horrifically, incomprehensibly,” Greg Abbott, Texas’ governor, said.

CNN reported on Tuesday that before entering the school the shooter also shot and injured his grandmother.

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