Florida shooting survivors return to Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School for first time since tragedy

Students from a Florida high school where 17 of their classmates and teachers were killed in one of America's worst mass shootings, returned to the school for the first time on Sunday.

Thousands of students joined their parents in walking past the three-story building at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School where the massacre took place. That building has been cordoned off with chain link fence that has been covered with banners showing their support for those who attend the school. The building will not be used by the school again.

The school reopens on Wednesday, but the early opening was organised to ease into the return for students, and to allow some to gather up belongings that had been left in the rush to escape when the school was evacuated. A former student, 19-year-old Nikolas Cruz has been charged with 17 counts of premeditated murder over the shooting.

“Just seeing the building was scary,” student Francesca Lozano said as she left the school with her mum. However, seeing her friends “made it a lot better” she told the Associated Press.   

Source: Yahoo News