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Shock, horror as Uvalde mourns children killed in school shooting

Esmeralda Bravo, 63, sheds tears for her granddaughter, Nevaeh, who was one of the 19 children killed in the Robb Elementary School attack [Jae C. Hong/AP Photo]

Uvalde, Texas, US – Ten-year-old Auraleigha Santos focused on staying quiet on Tuesday morning as she hid near the auditorium at Robb Elementary school in Uvalde, Texas, while in a classroom on the other side of the building, an 18-year-old man carrying an AR-15-style rifle kept shooting, and shooting and shooting.

By the time the gunman had finished, 19 of Santos’s classmates and two teachers were dead, and 17 were injured, leaving a predominantly Latino community about 135km (84 miles) west of San Antonio in Texas deeply shaken, and a state and a nation asking, yet again, whether anything would ever change.

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