Thousands of Virginia Tech graduates struggled to balance joy with grief at ceremonies held less than a month after a student gunman’s rampage devastated the university campus.

Virginia Tech’s president said today that a university student was the gunman in at least the second of the two campus attacks that claimed 33 lives yesterday.

University students described today how a gunman killed 32 people at Virginia Tech in the deadliest shooting spree in modern US history.

A gunman carrying an “ungodly” amount of ammunition killed 32 people at a US university today in America’s deadliest mass shooting.