El Paso— Thirty people died and dozens were wounded in two mass shootings within just 13 hours of each other in the US, shocking the country and prompting calls from some politicians for tighter gun control.

The first massacre occurred on Saturday morning in the heavily Hispanic border city of El Paso, where a gunman killed 20 people at a Walmart store before surrendering to police...

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