Students in Uvalde, Texas have returned to school amid heavy security, three months after a gunman killed 19 children and two teachers in their fourth-grade classrooms, in a mass shooting that sent shockwaves around the United States.Children began arriving at Uvalde Elementary before dawn on Tuesday, walking through newly installed 2.4-metre (8-foot) metal fencing that surrounds the campus and past a state trooper standing guard outside an entrance. Colourful flags hung inside the hallways and teachers wore turquoise shirts that read “Together We Rise & Together We Are Better” on the back. State troopers were parked on every corner outside the school.Robb Elementary School, where the shooting took place, did not reopen. And although school started weeks ago in many parts of Texas, officials pushed back the first day of class in Uvalde after a summer of unfathomable heartache, anger and revelations of widespread failures by law enforcement who allowed an 18-year-old gunman with an AR-15-style rifle to fire inside the adjoining classrooms for more than 70 minutes.
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