Amish students who survived a shooting in the US that killed five of their classmates are planning to move into a new building on Monday, six months to the day after the massacre at the Pennsylvania school.

The Amish schoolhouse gunman opened fire on his 10 hostages just moments after demanding authorities get off the property, giving state troopers no time to try to save the girls.

Amish families gathered today to bury four of the five girls gunned down inside their tiny rural schoolhouse.

PENNSYLVANIA Governor Ed Rendell yesterday offered Amish elders state police protection from an extremist church group that plans to demonstrate at the funerals of five girls fatally shot in an attack on their one-room schoolhouse.

Pennsylvania Governor Ed Rendell today said he will ask Amish elders if they want state police protection from a Kansas church group that plans to demonstrate at funerals of five girls fatally shot in an attack on their one-room schoolhouse.

The gunman who killed five girls in an Amish schoolroom confided to his wife during the siege that he sexually abused two relatives 20 years ago.

A fifth US child died today in a Delaware hospital of wounds from the shootings at an Amish schoolhouse in Pennsylvania .

A lorry driver carrying three guns stormed an Amish school and opened fire on a dozen girls, killing at least three people before committing suicide.

A TRUCK driver walked into an Amish school yesterday and sent the boys outside before holding the girls hostage and shooting them.

A number of people were killed in a shooting at a one-room Amish schoolhouse today, including the gunman, Pennsylvania state police said.

FLOYD LANDIS never saw the stump that sent him flying. Landis strayed from the track into a patch of weeds while screaming down a steep descent during his first lap at the 24 Hours of Canaan, a mountain bike relay race in West Virginia.

SIX family members who were beaten to death over the weekend were attacked with so much force that each died almost instantly, a coroner said yesterday.

A 21-YEAR-OLD man was charged yesterday with the gruesome killing of six relatives, whose bodies were found wrapped in sheets and blankets in the basement of his grandmother’s home in a tiny Pennsylvania town.

A man has been charged today with killing six members of his family, whose bodies were found bludgeoned to death in a home in Pennsylvania.

US police discovered six bodies in a Pennsylvania home, at least four of them wrapped in sheets and blankets in the basement.

THE Amish set themselves apart from nearly all modern things — electricity, cars, movies, television and computer games. Most of all, they abhor violence.

A 14-year-old girl whose 18-year-old boyfriend is accused of killing her parents left with him willingly after the shootings, prosecutors in Pennsylvania said in court papers.

Police in Pennsylvania are searching for an 18-year-old man and his girlfriend after her parents were found shot dead in their home.