Twelve Dead, 31 Wounded In Texas Military Base Shooting -- Yahoo News/AFP
SAN ANTONIO, Texas (AFP) – An American army major went on a shooting rampage Thursday at a Texas military base killing 11 people and wounding 31 others before being gunned down, army officials said.
Two other soldiers were arrested after the shooting spree and were being held as suspects, said Lieutenant General Bob Cone, commander at Fort Hood, the largest US military base in the world.
The major was identified by US officials as a military psychiatrist named either Malik Nadal Hasan or Nidal Malik Hasan. He was about to be deployed to Iraq.
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