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Coral Springs, Florida - 14 February 2018

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1. Wide of scene outside Marriott Hotel where parents are being reunited with their children

2. SOUNDBITE (English) Max Charles, Marjory Stoneman Douglas student:

"I was in a classroom and all I heard was the gunshots. And then when we went outside and the police cleared us for us to go outside, I see dead bodies on the floor."

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3. SOUNDBITE (English) Max Charles, Marjory Stoneman Douglas student:

"I thought it was a drill."

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4. SOUNDBITE (English) Max Charles, Marjory Stoneman Douglas student:

"We locked the door. We turned off the lights and we waited till the police said it was clear for us to leave."

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5. SOUNDBITE (English) Max Charles, Marjory Stoneman Douglas student:

"I thought maybe I could die or something"

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6. SOUNDBITE (English) Max Charles, Marjory Stoneman Douglas Student:

(Reporter off-camera: You saw what?)

Charles: "Dead bodies around the floor and blood all around the floor."

(Reporter off-camera: How many people?)

Charles: "Like, five on the third floor."

(Reporter off-camera: Did they look like students?)

Charles: "It was one teacher and four students."

7. Exterior of Marriott Hotel where parents are being reunited with their children

8. SOUNDBITE (English) Manuel Barraza, Marjory Stoneman Douglas student:

"So the dude pulled the fire drill. We went outside. Boom, boom, boom, boom. I heard gunshots. I thought it was firecrackers. But after I heard the last shot I was like oh, no, I'm out. I ran back to my classroom. Told my teacher 'I think that's a shooting. I think we should go in the back and hide'. And there was a real shooting because my teacher got a text from the school saying this is an actual shooting."

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9. SOUNDBITE (English) Manuel Barraza, Marjory Stoneman Douglas student:

"Just like worried about us getting shot. So, I just told people like, can you like not move around so we don't get killed or really make any noises because you know I'm not trying to die."

(Reporter off-camera: did you see the shooter?)

Barraza: "No I did not see the shooter."

(Reporter off-camera: Did you see anyone who was shot?)

Barraza: "No. I saw bodies when I left, though. Like four."

(Reporter off-camera: What did you see?)

Barraza: "Bullets in their heads. Lots of stuff. White sheets over their body. Stuff like that."

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10. SOUNDBITE (English) Manuel Barraza, Marjory Stoneman Douglas Student:

"I never I never knew our school would actually get shot up. I mean, our school's quiet. I don't know. It's not like a big popular school. It's just quiet, you know."

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11. SOUNDBITE (English) Abhiram Lingamsetty, Marjory Stoneman Douglas student:

"It was just a normal day. So then we just thought it was a drill. I was just hiding under a desk because my teacher's like, it was a code red. So I was hiding under a desk and like then I just started hearing shots."

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12. SOUNDBITE (English) Abhiram Lingamsetty, Marjory Stoneman Douglas student:

"I wasn't sure if it was a drill and then I started hearing sirens so I started, like, questioning, like, whether this was a drill or not. So I got really scared, you know."

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13. SOUNDBITE (English) Daniel Huerfano, Marjory Stoneman Douglas student:

"I would see him last year. I would see him walk around. He was like, shy, like with his lunch bag. But like, he wouldn't talk a lot. I mean, he was like that weird kid at school that you see walk around in school.

(Reporter off-camera: You would describe him as a loner?)

Huerfano: "Yeah, like a loner."

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14. SOUNDBITE (English) Daniel Huerfano, Marjory Stoneman Douglas student:

"You feel like it's a normal day at school, like, you don't expect this. And like, someone could like, come in, bring a gun and shoot up the school. Until you realise it, you just like, you start texting your family, like 'I love you' because you never know if you could get shot or killed right then and there."

++ENDS ON SOUNDBITE++

Students of a Florida high school which was the scene of a shooting spoke of their horror after Wednesday's attack, while they were being reunited with their parents at a South Florida hotel.

Officers transported the students from Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland to a Marriott Hotel in Coral Springs.

Broward County Sheriff Scott Israel said the attack began outside the school Wednesday afternoon.

He told reporters that authorities subsequently found 12 people dead in the building and two more dead just outside the school and one more in a nearby street.

Two other people died later under medical treatment.

"I heard gunshots. I thought it was firecrackers. But after I heard the last shot I was like oh, no," said student Manuel Barraza.

The suspect, a 19-year-old former student of Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, was in custody.

The gunman was identified as Nikolas Cruz by a US official briefed on the investigation.

The official spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorised to discuss the information publicly.