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Apparent murder-suicide at US air base

An airman and his commander have died in an apparent murder-suicide at an air force base in Texas, authorities say.

An airman shot his commander in an apparent murder-suicide at a US Air Force base in San Antonio, Texas, a senior US official says.

The official spoke on condition of anonymity because he wasn't authorised to publicly discuss Friday's shooting at Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland.

Two handguns were found near the bodies of the men inside a building that's used for classrooms and offices, according to Brigadier General Robert LaBrutta, who oversees Joint Base San Antonio.

He stressed that the shooting was not an act of terrorism. He declined to identify the two men, saying their families must be notified first.

Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland, the military's largest joint base, is the home of Air Force basic training.

The fatal shooting is the latest to occur at a military facility in Texas in the last several years. In the deadliest attack to occur at a US military installation, 13 people were killed and 31 were wounded in 2009 in a mass shooting at Fort Hood.


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