BREAKING NEWS: BBC Breakfast TEMPORARILY HALTS Broadcast to Deliver HEARTBREAKING NEWS, Leaving Fans Still Outraged

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BBC Breakfast was paused for a tragic update on a school sh00ting in Minneapolis, which has left two children d3ad and 17 others injured. While correspondent Tom Bateman was live at the scene in the United States, fans were left fuming despite the devastating news, as they questioned his reason for “standing outside the school in the dark”.

One furious fan tweeted: “Tragic. But do we really need a BBC reporter standing outside at the scene in the dark? No.” Somebody else mused: “So sad, but I just wonder if Tom needed to fly out to stand there, really…”

Two children were k!lled in the @ttack, which is being investigated as an act of domestic t3rr0rism and a hate cr!me targeting Catholics. An eight-year-old and a 10-year-old sadly d!ed, while 14 children and three adults were !njured. The 23-year-old sh00ter d!ed from a self-inflicted wound at the scene.

Speaking live from the scene, Tom explained: “Being here, Naga, we’ve just heard that sense of absolute frustration from the p0l!ticians involved here. You’ve had US senators here, the state governor Tim Walz who ran as the vice pɾes!dential nominee for the Democrats, of course, at the end of last year, as well as the mayor of Minneapolis, all basically saying that there aren’t any words for what happened here because these things shouldn’t happen.

 

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Tom Bateman was live in Minneapolis (Image: BBC)

“They of course voiced yet again they’re coming out having to try and find the words because p0l!tically the gun control situation does not change in this country.”

He explained: “In terms of the investigation, two key strands to this. First of all around the searches that the police and the FBI are [conducting]. Three of those are at premises they say are residential premises linked to the assailant [Robin] Westman, where they have found other weapons, and also making clear that the weapons Westman used, including a semi-automatic rifle, were all purchased legally.”

Bateman also referenced a YouTube video posted by Westman as a “manifesto”, telling viewers: “The other part of it is that YouTube video, which is just a deeply disturbing 10 minute watch. It has been taken down from YouTube, but all of the messages in that are going to be a core part of the probe that is being carried out by these agencies, including now the p0l!ce and the F.B.I.”