A US army major, assigned to be deployed overseas, has killed 13 people and wounded 30 others at the Fort Hood Army post, the worst mass shooting ever at a military base in the US.
Source:Press TV
- The serviceman was identified as Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, a 39-year-old from Virginia.
- Hassan, first said to have been killed, was wounded but alive and in stable condition under military guard, said Lt. Gen. Bob Cone at Fort Hood.
- Earlier, Col. Ben Danner said the suspect was shot four times and was in critical condition.
- As a military psychiatrist, Hasan was due to be sent on a mission to Iraq, his cousin Nader Hasan told Fox News.
- The major had been resisting such a deployment, Nader added.
- "He hired a military attorney to try to have the issue resolved, pay back the government, to get out of the military. He was at the end of trying everything," said Nader.
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