Workers with machines moved in before dawn today and demolished the one-room Amish schoolhouse in Nickel Mines, Pennsylvania, where five US girls were shot dead and five others were injured on October 2.

Mourners today prepared to bury a fifth Amish girl who was gunned down in a US school classroom and faced the possibility that at least one of five other girls wounded in the shooting could die.

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