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Article: Deaths in US army base shooting.
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- Aljazeera.net
- Article date:
- November 6, 2009
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11/6/2009 4:10:42 AM
A mass shooting at the largest army base in the US has left 12 people dead and at least 31 wounded, military officials say.
The incident took place inside the Fort Hood military base in Texas as soldiers were awaiting medical and dental treatment at a processing centre for troops being deployed on missions to Iraq and Afghanistan.
Lieutenant-General Bob Cone, the base commander, said the shooting took place at about 1:30pm local time (1930 GMT) on Thursday at a "soldier readiness facility".
The shooter has been named as Major Nidal Malik Hasan, a 39-year-old army psychiatrist.
"There was a single shooter ...