Children who survived the Texas massacre tell horror scenes in their school

American media published testimonies of children who survived the Yuvaldi massacre, describing the horror they experienced in their school, where a gunman killed 19 students and two teachers, testimonies that exacerbate the controversy over the police's handling of the attack.

On Friday, Texas authorities issued a self-criticism, acknowledging that police had made a "wrong decision" not to enter the building quickly.

The police took about an hour on Tuesday before intervening to stop the massacre, despite receiving several calls from students calling on them to intervene.

There were 19 security personnel outside the school but they were waiting for a specialized unit of border police to arrive.

Meanwhile, the children of Habeesi kept their class with the barely 18-year-old shooter Salvador Ramos.

The attacker entered the classroom, locked the door and told the children, "You're all going to die," before he started shooting at them, survivor Samuel Salinas, 10, told ABC.

"I think he aimed at me," the child added, but a chair between him and the shooter saved him from the bullet.

Subsequently, Salinas tried to "fake death" in the blood-soaked room so that the bullets would not target him.

Mia Cirillo, 11, took the same method in order not to attract the attention of Salvador Ramos, smearing herself with the blood of a colleague whose body was next to her, as she explained to CNN in an unfilmed testimony.

The student, Daniel, confirmed to the "Washington Post" that the victims did not scream while they waited for the police to arrive to rescue them.

"I was scared and exhausted because the bullets almost hit me," he said.

He explained that his teacher, who was wounded in the attack but survived, asked the students to remain calm and not move.

A schoolgirl who was also hit by a bullet asked her teacher to call the police, saying she was "bleeding a lot", says Daniel, who can no longer sleep alone and has nightmares.

His mother, Briana Ruiz, said the children who survived "are suffering from trauma, and they will have to live with it for the rest of their lives".

Samuel Salinas also said he had nightmares of seeing the shooter.

Still, the thought of going back to school or even seeing his classmates frightened him.

And the director of the Texas Department of Public Safety, Stephen McCraw, said at a news conference Friday that police did not intervene quickly because they thought there might be no survivors.

However, the police received many calls from many people in the two affected classrooms, including a call from a girl at 12:16 pm, more than half an hour before the police intervened at 12:50, reporting that “eight to nine students are alive.” According to what McCraw himself revealed.

Dozens of people gathered in Yuvaldi on Saturday morning in the central square, which has become a place to honor the victims, and laid flowers and letters addressed to students and teachers, as well as to the survivors.

US President Joe Biden and his wife Jill are heading to Yuvaldi on Sunday to "share in mourning" with the residents of the small town who witnessed one of the worst gun massacres in recent years in the country.

But the Democratic president, who has consistently deplored the "epidemic" of gun violence, has so far failed to pass major gun control laws.

"We can't prevent tragedies, I know, but we can make America safer," Biden said in a speech Saturday, lamenting the death of so many innocents in many places.

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