1st LD: 14 students, 1 teacher dead in U.S. Texas elementary school shooting


By Xia Lin

HOUSTON, May 24 (Xinhua) -- A gunman walked into an elementary school in Uvalde in U.S. state of Texas on Tuesday afternoon and killed 14 children and a teacher, Governor Greg Abbott said at a news conference.

The assailant was an 18-year-old man, who abandoned his vehicle and entered the school with a handgun and possibly a rifle, Abbott said, adding that "he shot and killed horrifically, incomprehensibly, 14 students and killed a teacher."

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