In pictures: Virginia victims mourned

Thousands of students from Virginia Tech university queued on Tuesday to attend a memorial service for the victims of the massacre on their campus the day before.

US President George W Bush and First Lady Laura Bush led the mourning at the university's Cassell Coliseum sports stadium.

The headline in the university newspaper expressed the common emotion among friends and relatives of those killed.

Most of those killed were in Norris Hall, an engineering building. Earlier, two other students, Ryan Clark and Emily Hilscher, died in West Ambler Johnston hall.

Tributes were offered to the dead, including Indian-born Professor GV Loganathan. Not all of the victims have yet been named.

Another of the victims was 76-year-old Holocaust survivor Professor Liviu Librescu, who put himself in the line of fire to protect his students.

The people of Blacksburg were reeling from the shock that America's worst ever mass campus shooting could have happened on their doorstep.

President Bush ordered that US flags on all government buildings fly at half-mast out of respect for the 32 victims.

There was incomprehension among students when it emerged on Tuesday that the gunman was one of their own, 23-year-old South Korean Cho Seung-hui.

Thousands gathered at the campus of Virginia Tech on Tuesday night to pay their respect at a candle-lit vigil.

Volunteers handed out thousands of candles in paper cups, donated from around the US.

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