A teacher wounded in a school shooting in Uvalde, Texas, has criticised police as cowards.

A teacher wounded in a school shooting in Uvalde, Texas, has criticised police as cowards for delaying acting while his pupils were killed, stating that they had a bulletproof vest and he had non.

In a harrowing interview Reyes, said he told his students to pretend to be asleep during the shooting, with eleven of them killed when the gunman raided his classroom and an adjacent classroom for over an hour as police stood in the hall.

The attack by an 18-year-old local which claimed the lives of 21 people, including 19 young children has led to renewed national debate about gun regulations.