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Fri 11 Nov 2009Texas shooting leaves 13 dead
Investigators searched today for the motive behind a mass shooting at a sprawling US army base in Texas, in which an army psychiatrist trained to treat war wounded is suspected of killing 13 people.
A spokesman at the base said the suspected gunman, Major Nidal Malik Hasan, a Muslim born in the United States of immigrant parents, had been shot four times by security police and was unconscious but in stable condition.
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