
1. Yesterday in the US, there were two mass shootings in less than 24 hours.
Thirty people have died and dozens have been wounded in two mass shootings within just 13 hours of each other in the US, prompting calls for tighter gun control.
The first massacre occurred on Saturday morning in the heavily Hispanic border city of El Paso, where a gunman killed 20 people at a Walmart store before surrendering to police.
Texas Governor Greg Abbott said the rampage appeared to be a hate crime.
Police cited a “manifesto” they attributed to the suspect, a 21-year-old white man, as evidence that the bloodshed was racially motivated.
Across the country, a gunman opened fire in a downtown district of Dayton, Ohio, early on Sunday, killing nine people and wounding at least 26 others, police and the city mayor said.
The assailant was shot dead by police, less than a minute after he started shooting.
Several Democratic candidates for next year’s US presidential election denounced the rise of gun violence and repeated calls for tighter gun control measures.
Ohio Mass Shooting: Connor Betts was killed by police less than a minute after he started shooting a .223-calibre rifle into the streets of a popular Dayton nightlife area. #7NEWS https://t.co/p5O418KHdW
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