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Forensic experts testify to victims’ suffering in US Fort Hood rampage

A sketch of Major Nidal Malik Hasan during his trial at the US Army post in Fort Hood in Texas. Photo: Reuters

Forensic experts testified in graphic detail on Thursday how soldiers suffered when they were shot by an army psychiatrist who has admitted opening fire at a Texas military base in 2009 because he switched sides in what he considered a US war on Islam.

Major Nidal Hasan, an American Muslim who faces 13 charges of premeditated murder and 32 charges of premeditated attempted murder in the attack at Fort Hood, Texas, has told mental health evaluators that he wanted to become a martyr while carrying out “jihad”.