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US veteran arrested over Florida airport shooting

By Al Jazeera
07 January 2017   |   1:57 pm
Authorities are trying to determine what motivated the 26-year-old Iraq war veteran to carry out the attack Police in the US are trying to find out why a man went on a shooting spree at a Florida airport, killing five people.

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