SEOUL– President Yoon Suk-yeol has sent condolences to U.S. President Joe Biden over this week’s mass shooting in Texas that left 21 people dead, a presidential official said Friday.
Yoon sent a message to Biden on Thursday, offering his condolences over the deaths of the victims and wishing a speedy recovery for those who were injured, the official told reporters.
A gunman opened fire at an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas, on Tuesday, killing 19 students and two teachers and wounding multiple others before being killed himself by a U.S. Border Patrol agent.
It was one of the deadliest school shootings in U.S. history.
Source: Yonhap News Agency