At least 20 killed, 20 wounded in shooting at Texas church

A shooting at a Baptist church in the US state of Texas on Sunday resulted in multiple casualties, news media reported. The shooter was reported killed.
A County Commissioner in Texas said he had been told that more than 20 people were killed and more than 20 were wounded in the attack, though he said those figures haven't been confirmed.
Albert Gamez, a Wilson County commissioner, made the comments to cable news outlets after the attack Sunday at the First Baptist Church in Sutherland Springs, a small community 30 miles southeast of San Antonio.
The Wilson County News reported that Wilson County Sheriff Joe Tackitt said the shooter has been taken down. 
First responders converged on the church in the small town southeast of San Antonio and helicopters are taking victims to hospitals.
They said the shooter walked into the church shortly before noon — at a morning service that witnesses said was normally attended by some 50 people — and opened fire. A two-year-old was among the wounded, the Dallas Morning News website reported.
A spokeswoman for Connally Memorial Medical Center in nearby Floresville told Fox News that “we have accepted a number of patients from the shooting.” She gave no number.
Helicopters and emergency personnel were arriving at the scene, and agents of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives were heading to the scene, the bureau said.
The shooting comes just over a month after a gunman in Las Vegas, firing down from a hotel room, killed 58 people and wounded hundreds attending an outdoor concert.
And it came just over two years after a white supremacist, Dylann Roof, entered a historically black church in Charleston, South Carolina, and shot nine people to death.

Source:Arabnews