雅思时事阅读：康涅狄格州校园枪击案细节报道_雅思英语阅读

雅思时事阅读：康涅狄格州校园枪击案细节报道

　　When sirens blared in the background, Sibley knew help was on the way. Firetrucks from the station down the block pulled up and, when the authorities gave a signal to Sibley and the other moms hiding out with her, the women ran, keeping low, to a shielding fire truck as an officer covered them with his weapon. About 10 or 15 minutes later, authorities started to release students one class at a time. She saw her child and went down to the fire house to await instructions and head counts. And that was when the horror became apparentnot with visible carnage but by absence. It was apparent, says Sibley, that there was one particular class of students that was not coming out of the building. She says, Those parents were just devastated and hysterical, and it was awful. In the street outside the firehouse, which was bedecked with wreaths and Christmas trees, one woman collapsed into another womans arms, screaming Oh my God. Why did they take my baby?

　　The killer gunned down 20 children18 of whom perished in the school, two dying in the hospital; six adults were among the dead as well. The massacres toll makes it the second-deadliest shooting in U.S. history, surpassed only by the 2007 shooting at Virginia Tech University in which 33 people were killed. Officials said the assailant took his own life; the police reportedly did not fire a single shot. Adam Lanza, as the alleged gunman was identified in several press reports, was 20-years old, a year under the legal limit for gun ownership in Connecticut. The weapons he used, including the two 9 mm handguns reportedly found by his body, were allegedly registered to his mother Nancy. She was reported to be a teacher at Sandy Hook, and it may have been her class that was attacked. She too was listed among the deadbut it was not yet clear whether her body was found at the school or elsewhere.