Photos: Shooting at First Baptist Church in Texas leaves 26 dead

A man clad in all black and a ballistic vest opened fire at a Baptist church in Sutherland Spirings,Texas killing at least 26 people and injuring 20 others.

Updated on: Nov 06, 2017 10:49 AM IST

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People attend a candle light vigil after a mass shooting at the First Baptist Church in Sutherland Springs, Texas on November 5, 2017. A gunman dressed in black tactical gear killed at least 26 people and wounded 20 others at a white-steepled church in Texas on Sunday, carrying out the latest in a series of mass shootings that have plagued the United States. (Sergio Flores / REUTERS)

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The area around a site of a shooting is cordoned off by state and federal investigators in Sutherland Springs, Texas. Authorities described the shooter as only a ‘young white male in his early-20s’, but news reports identified him as Devin P Kelley, a 26-year-old from Houston. He once served with the US air force, in logistics and taught toddlers in an elementary school. (Max Massey / KSAT 12 via REUTERS)

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Medical personnel and law enforcement set up along a street near the First Baptist Church on November 5, 2017. The gunman began shooting at the church while approaching, circling to its right and entering, as the Sunday service was underway. As he exited, an armed local resident fired at him. The shooter dropped his weapon, fled in his car but ran off the road a short distance later and crashed. He was found dead inside. (Mohammad Khursheed / REUTERS)

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US President Donald Trump speaks about the shooting at an event in Tokyo on November 6, 2017. ‘May God be w/ (with) the people of Sutherland Springs, Texas. The FBI & law enforcement are on the scene. I am monitoring the situation from Japan,’ Trump wrote on Twitter from Tokyo, ‘This act of evil occurred as the victims and their families were in their place of worship. Our hearts are broken,’ he said. (Jonathan Ernst / REUTERS)

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Forensic investigators work at the scene of the shooting at the First Baptist on November 5, 2017. The victims ranged in age from 5 to 72 years old, law enforcement officials told a news conference. Among the dead was the 14-year-old daughter of Pastor Frank Pomeroy, the family told several television stations. (Jay Janner / Austin American-Statesman via AP)

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A woman and her children take part in a vigil for victims of a mass shooting in Sutherland Springs, Texas. The incident is the latest in a string of mass shootings that bring into focus liberal gun rules in United States, which was last rattled a month ago when a man fired into a concert in Las Vegas using heavy weapons. (Mohammad Khursheed / REUTERS)

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Local residents embrace during a candlelight vigil for victims of the shooting. Sutherland Springs is a small rural community of about 680 people --residents told reporters it was a place where nothing ever happened and everyone knew everyone. (Mohammad Khursheed / REUTERS)

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Residents attend a vigil after the mass shooting at the First Baptist Church in Sutherland Springs, Texas. The church, of the protestant First Baptist Church was a place for friends to gather and meet every weekend. (Sergio Flores / REUTERS)