WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. first lady Michelle Obama on Thursday will meet with families of victims of the shooting rampage at a Sikh temple in Wisconsin earlier this month, a White House aide said on Saturday.
Six people were killed and four others, including a police officer, were injured on August 5 when Wade Michael Page, an Army veteran with links to racist groups, gunned them down and then killed himself.
Obama will go to Milwaukee to meet with immediate family members of those who were killed and injured, the aide said on condition of anonymity. Investigators have not determined why Page targeted the Sikh temple.
President Barack Obama has called for an end to "senseless violence" in the wake of the shootings at the temple and a July 20 massacre at a Colorado movie theater that killed 12 people.
But he has been careful not to take a controversial stand on gun control in the run-up to the November 6 presidential election.
(Reporting by Tabassum Zakaria; Editing by Paul Simao)
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/michelle-obama-meet-families-sikh-temple-shooting-victims-165628798.html
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