Texas school shooting updates: 19 children, two adults killed; Biden calls for action on gun laws

A teenage gunman killed at least 19 children and two adults after storming into a Texas elementary school Tuesday

the latest bout of gun-fueled mass murder in the United States and the nation’s worst school shooting in nearly a decade.

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Several people, including children, were injured. Some are in critical condition.

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A Texas Department of Public Safety spokesperson later told CNN that 19 school children and two adults were killed, not counting the shooter. One of the adults was a teacher.

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Speaking from the White House hours later, a visibly shaken US President Joe Biden urged Americans to stand up to the politically powerful US gun lobby, which he blamed for blocking enactment of tougher “common-sense” firearms safety laws.

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