AMOK WITH A GUN.
EIGHT CHILDREN SHOT. ("Times" Cables.) (Received 1.30 p.m.) LONDON, May 21. The Madrid correspondent of the "Times" states thai a youth in the village of Pasanant, in the Province of Tarragon, induced children to come to the fields to watch him pigeon shooting. He shot seven children dead with a doublebarrelled shotgun,, and killed the eighth while en route to the village. Here he shot a woman dead, and wounded another. He then slew her with an axe, and wounded five more women before he fled. He was pursued by the police, but was not captured.
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Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 119, 22 May 1928, Page 7
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