Students in Uvalde, Texas have returned to school amid heavy security, three months after a gunman killed 19 children and two teachers in their fourth-grade classrooms, in a mass shooting that sent shockwaves around the United States.
Children began arriving at Uvalde Elementary before dawn on Tuesday, walking through newly installed 2.4-metre (8-foot) metal fencing that surrounds the campus and past a state trooper standing guard outside an entrance. Colourful flags hung inside the hallways and teachers wore turquoise shirts that read “Together We Rise & Together We Are Better” on the back. State troopers were parked on every corner outside the school.
