Houston, Nov 6 (PTI) A US Army psychiatrist, apparently angry over being deployed to Iraq, today went on a "horrific" shooting spree at America's largest military base near here killing 13 persons, including 10 soldiers, and injuring 30 before being shot and injured by a woman police officer.
The lone gunman responsible for the worst mass killing ever at a US defence post was identified as 39-year-old Major Nidal Malik Hasan, an American national of Jordanian descent, who was about to be deployed to Iraq, officials at sprawling Fort Hood military base in St Antonio in central Texas said.
Clad in a military uniform, Hasan fired a pair of pistols, one of them semi-automatic, at a military processing centre, where soldiers go for a last-minute medical check up before being sent on deployment.
Hasan and a policewoman also exchanged fire. Both were hit but survived, authorities said.
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