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Synagogue shooting: Truck driver convicted of killing 11 people

Synagogue shooting: Truck driver convicted of killing 11 people

A truck driver has been convicted of fatally shooting 11 people at a synagogue in the deadliest attack on Jews in the US.

Seven others were also wounded, including five police officers, after Robert Bowers opened fire with an assault rifle and other weapons in Pittsburgh.

Bowers, 50, had faced 63 charges, including hate crimes resulting in death and obstruction of the free exercise of religion resulting in death.

The guilty verdict was not in doubt after his lawyers conceded at the beginning of the trial that he attacked and killed worshippers at the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh on 27 October 2018.