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Updated On: 09 November, 2009 08:19 AM IST | | Agencies
34-year-old cop single-handedly stopped massacre at US military base
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34-year-old cop single-handedly stopped massacre at US military base
A police officer and mother of two was hailed a heroine yesterday after it emerged that she almost single-handedly ended the massacre at America's biggest military base.
Kimberly Munley does not look as if she would be much of a match for a heavily armed US soldier on a murderous rampage.
But the slightly built 34-year-old civilian officer, who is less than five feet tall, was first on the scene after Major Nidal Malik Hasan began firing on comrades at Ford Hood in Texas.
The 39-year-old psychologist killed 13 and left 31 others with serious injuries. She is now recovering in hospital.
On Thursday afternoon Munley was directing traffic for a graduation, her usual duty, when she heard gunfire and ran towards it.
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