Virginia Tech honours killed students
Published: 12 May, 2007, 03:27
Virginia Tech University has awarded degrees to the victims of last month's campus shooting. During the ceremony, nine graduate students were given posthumous master's degrees or doctorates.
On April 16 a South Korean student killed 33 people before shooting himself. President George W. Bush has issued a statement praising “the compassion and resilient spirit” of the Virginia Tech community.
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