US President Joe Biden announced Wednesday that he will travel to Texas “in the coming days” to meet with families grieving after the attack at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, on Tuesday (24), which killed 19 children and two adults.
“Jil [Biden] and I will be traveling to Texas in the coming days to meet with the families and let them know that we feel their pain and hope to bring some comfort to the community in shock, pain and trauma,” Biden said in a White House statement.
“As a nation, I think we should all be there for them,” he added.
Details are still being finalized and it is not yet known when the president will make the trip – planning takes into account that the visit cannot be distracting in the midst of response efforts.
San Antonio University Hospital said on Twitter that it had received two injured victims in Uvalde, a 66-year-old woman and a 10-year-old girl, both listed in critical condition.
Biden ordered the flags to be flown at half-mast until sunset daily until May 28 due to the tragedy. He even made an incisive speech against the US arms industry. “We need to stand up to this industry,” he said.
In his political trajectory, Biden adopted an anti-arms speech, and declared to be “exhausted” from the situation in the country. “Don’t tell me we can’t have an impact on this carnage.”
“This kind of massacre doesn’t happen as often as it does in the United States. Why? Why do we have to live with this carnage?” he asked, then asked for prayers for the victims and their families.
Source: CNN Brasil
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