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Article: Mass shooting at US army base.
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- Aljazeera.net
- Article date:
- November 6, 2009
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11/5/2009 9:21:56 PM
A mass shooting at the largest army base in the US has left 12 people dead and at least 31 injured, military officials have said.
Lieutenant-General Bob Cone, the base commander at Fort Hood in Texas, said that one suspected shooter was killed and two others were in custody after the attack on Thursday.
"The shooter was killed. He was a soldier. We since then have apprehended two additional soldiers that are suspects. There were eyewitness accounts that there may have been more than one shooter," Cone said.
Cone said the shooting took place at about 1:30 pm (1930 GMT) at a "Soldier Readiness Facility", where ...