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Martin Pengelly in New York, Erum Salam in San Antonio and agencies

‘Humble and charismatic’: Uvalde shooting victims mourned at first funerals

Pallbearers carry the casket of Amerie Jo Garza to her burial site in Uvalde, Texas, on Tuesday.
Pallbearers carry the casket of Amerie Jo Garza to her burial site in Uvalde, Texas, on Tuesday. Photograph: Jae C Hong/AP

Funerals for the victims of the Uvalde elementary school shooting began in the small Texas town on Tuesday.

In the afternoon, hundreds of mourners turned out for the funeral mass for Amerie Jo Garza, a smiling fourth-grader who was killed a week ago after an 18-year-old gunman who was eventually killed by law enforcement officials murdered 19 children and two teachers at Robb elementary school.

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