Gunman kills 27, including 20 children in US school, before shooting himself

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A 20-year-old man wearing combat gear and armed with pistols and a semi-automatic rifle killed 26 people - 20 of them children - in an attack on Friday in an elementary school in wooded Connecticut. Witnesses and officials described a horrific scene as the gunman, with brutal efficiency, chose his victims in two specific classrooms while other students dove under desks and hid in closets. (Video Courtesy: ABC News)

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