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Republican presidential candidate former US President Donald Trump is helped off the stage by US Secret Service agents at a campaign event in Pensilvania, July 13, 2024
FORMER US president Donald Trump called for unity and resilience today, hours after surviving an assassination attempt at campaign rally.
Secret Service agents shot dead the gunman, but not before his attack had killed a person attending the event in the Pennsylvania town of Butler.
The roof where the would-be assassin, identified as Thomas Matthew Crooks, lay in wait was less than 164 yards from where Mr Trump was speaking.
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