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Colorado massacre: 24 murder, 116 attempted murder charges

CENTENNIAL, Colorado (AFP)

Colorado prosecutors charged James Holmes with 24 counts of murder and 116 counts of attempted murder Monday for one of the worst mass shootings in US history.

A dozen people were killed and 58 were wounded after a gunman burst into a sold-out midnight viewing of the latest Batman film, "The Dark Knight Rises," and began shooting people at random.

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