HEARTBREAK A girl cries, comforted by two adults, outside the Willie de Leon Civic Center where grief counseling will be offered in Uvalde, Texas, on Tuesday, May 24, 2022 (May 25 in Manila). Over a dozen children woundedThe gunman was killed by responding officers, the officials said, adding later two teachers also died in the attack. "Right now there's 19 children that were killed by this evil gunman, as well as two teachers from this school," DPS spokesman Lt. Chris Olivarez told NBC News. It was the deadliest such incident since the 2012 Sandy Hook shooting in Connecticut, in which 20 children and six staff were killed. On May 14, an 18-year-old self-declared white supremacist shot 10 people dead at a Buffalo, New York grocery store.

Source: Manila Times May 26, 2022 06:06 UTC