A gunman shot and killed 14 students and one teacher on Tuesday at an elementary school in South Texas, governor Gregg Abbott said.

No official details were immediately available on the midday shooting, which unfolded at Robb Elementary School in the town of Uvalde, Texas, about 80 miles west of San Antonio.

But Uvalde Memorial Hospital said on its Facebook page that it received 13 children as patients via ambulance or buses for treatment, and that two of those “were deceased”.

A second hospital said it received two patients from the shooting – one child and one adult.

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