Updated On: 16 December, 2012 08:32 AM IST | | Agencies
US President Barack Obama wiped tears and spoke of his grief as the authorities scrambled to piece together the mayhem at a Connecticut elementary school where 28 people, including 20 children, were shot dead
Twenty out of the 28 people who were gunned down at a Connecticut elementary school by a heavily armed young man — identified as 20-year-old Adam Lanza — were kids aged between five and 10.

US President Barack Obama (below) mourned the death of 28 people who were slaughtered by a gunman in Connecticut yesterday. People gather for a prayer vigil at St Rose Church. Pics/ AFPu00a0