Connecticut school shooting: Children among 27 killed

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Connecticut school shooting

Twenty children and six adults have been killed in a shooting attack at a primary school in the US state of Connecticut, police say.

The gunman also died, but was not formally identified by police.

However, officials told US media the killer at Sandy Hook Elementary School, Newtown, was a 20-year-old son of a teacher at the school.

It is one of the worst-ever US school shootings, with a toll close to the 32 who died at Virginia Tech in 2007.