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Texas Shooting: UNICEF tells leaders to keep schools safe

The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has urged governments to take greater action to ensure schools remain safe for boys and girls.

• May 26, 2022
Robb Elementary School
Robb Elementary School, Uvalde in Texas [Credit: Allison Dinner/AFP via Getty Images]

The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has urged governments to take greater action to ensure schools remain safe for boys and girls.

UNICEF’s executive director Catherine Russell made the call on Wednesday, following the latest deadly mass shooting in a school in the U.S.

No fewer than 19 children and two teachers were murdered on Tuesday when 18-year-old gunman, Salvador Ramos, attacked Robb Elementary School in the small city of Uvalde, Texas, located near the border with Mexico.

According to Ms Russell, there have already been “horrific attacks” this year on schools in Afghanistan, Ukraine, the U.S., West Africa and beyond.

“Tragedy after tragedy, shooting after shooting, young life after young life. How many more children will die before government leaders act to keep children and their schools safe? Because until they do, these horrors will continue,” she said in a statement.

Ms Russell emphasised that outside of their homes, school is the one place where children should feel safest and noted that in addition to the lives lost, many more children, teachers and school staff who witnessed the carnage would bear the emotional and psychological scars for the rest of their lives.

UN secretary-general António Guterres, expressed shock at “the heinous mass shooting.”

Mr Guterres extended his heartfelt condolences to the families and loved ones of the victims and to the entire community.

UN deputy secretary-general Amina Mohammed said, “When children go to school, they should only be concerned about learning. Children should not go to school fearing for their lives!”

(NAN)

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