WORLD : N.Z. Massacre Toll Rises to 13
The death toll in the country’s worst massacre rose to 13 today when police found human remains in the debris of a house the killer set ablaze before opening fire on his neighbors.
The remains were believed to be those of two 11-year-old girls missing in the 23-hour siege that ended Wednesday in the South Island seaside hamlet of Aramoana.
Discovery of the two bodies raised to 13 the number of people slain by 33-year-old David Gray before police killed him in a shoot-out. Two children were wounded by Gray, who wiped out nearly half of Aramoana’s population.
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