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Fort Hood massacre

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Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, the US Army psychiatrist identified as the suspect in the shooting at the US Army post Fort Hood in Texas. Hasan allegedly opened fire with two handguns, killing 13 and wounding 31 others. Hasan was shot several times but survived.

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A swat team enters the main gate at Fort Hood after a soldier opened fire, killing 13 fellow soldiers and wounding 31 others. The suspected gunman remains hospitalized on a ventilator. Two other soldiers have been apprehended in what appears to be the worst mass shooting at a US military base.

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Emergency personnel take a wounded person on a stretcher to an awaiting ambulance at the scene at the U.S. Army base Fort Hood.

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Emergency personnel load a wounded person into an ambulance at Fort Hood.

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Local police respond at the scene after a gunmen opened fire at Fort Hood.

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Sgt. Fanuaee Vea embraces Pvt. Savannah Green while trying to reach friends and family outside the Fort Hood Military base in Texas.

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Sgt. First Class Noe Figueroa hangs his head as he waits to return on base outside Fort Hood's Clear Creek gate in Killeen, Texas. "I think it's sad for all the soldiers that got hurt, that got killed. It shouldn't have happened," he said.

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Sgt. Anthony Sills comforts his wife as they wait outside the Fort Hood Army base near Killeen, Texas . The Sills' three-year old son was in daycare on the base, which was in lockdown following the mass shooting.

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Spc. Chad Rings, Spc. David Straub, and Spc. Ryan Howard wait to enter Fort Hood near the main entrance to the base in Killeen, Texas. Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, an army psychiatrist, is suspected of killing 13 and injuring 31 soldiers in a mass shooting on the military base.