In US, children return to school but so do the guns
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07/05/2021 - 07:48 A memorial was set up at the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida on the anniversary of the February 14, 2018 mass shooting JOE RAEDLE GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA/AFP/File 4 min
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Students in many US states are just returning to classrooms after months of remote learning due to the coronavirus pandemic but the move back has come with an unfortunate uptick in gun violence.
From the first hours of Thursday, it felt like Groundhog Day at 7:00 am an Army trainee carrying a rifle hijacked a bus full of elementary school students near Fort Jackson, South Carolina for reasons unknown, before letting them go unharmed.
In US, children return to school, but so do the guns The return of children to school after extended remote learning has come with an unfortunate uptick in gun violence. FILE: Kristi Gilroy hugs a young woman at a police check point near the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School where 17 people were killed by a gunman on 15 February 2018 in Parkland, Florida. Picture: AFP.
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WASHINGTON - Students in many US states are just returning to classrooms after months of remote learning due to the coronavirus pandemic but the move back has come with an unfortunate uptick in gun violence.
07 May 2021 / 14:26 H. A hallway is seen empty during a day of school portrait shoots at Sun Yat Sen M.S. –AFP
WASHINGTON: Students in many US states are just returning to classrooms after months of remote learning due to the coronavirus pandemic - but the move back has come with an unfortunate uptick in gun violence.
From the first hours of Thursday, it felt like Groundhog Day - at 7:00 am an Army trainee carrying a rifle hijacked a bus full of elementary school students near Fort Jackson, South Carolina for reasons unknown, before letting them go unharmed.
Arrested a short time later, the 23-year-old man was charged with 19 counts of kidnapping, carjacking and other crimes.