US church shooting: Donald Trump, Texas Governor offer condolences

Many people were shot when a gunman opened fire during Sunday morning services at a Baptist church in Texas.

Washington: US President Donald Trump on Sunday said that he was monitoring from Japan the shooting at a Baptist church in Texas.

He also said, "May God be with the people of Sutherland Springs."

Texas Governor Greg Abbott also offered his condolences.

Many people were killed when a gunman opened fire during Sunday morning services at a Baptist church in Texas.

The gunman was later killed. It was unclear whether the shooter died from a police bullet or at his own hand, as per media reports.

Sutherland Springs is a small rural community about 30 miles (50 kilometers) southeast of San Antonio.

The shooter reportedly walked into the church shortly before noon - at a morning service that witnesses said was normally attended by some 50 people - and opened fire.

The shooting comes just over a month after a gunman in Las Vegas, firing down from a hotel room, killed 58 people and wounded hundreds attending an outdoor concert.

And it came just over two years after a white supremacist, Dylann Roof, entered a historically black church in Charleston, South Carolina, and shot nine people to death.