Havana, May 26 (RHC)-- Cuba regretted Thursday the tragedy at a school in Texas, the United States, where a young man shot at school children and teachers, causing more than 20 deaths to date.

On Twitter,  President Miguel Díaz-Canel said that he deeply regretted the tragedy and stressed that teenagers and weapons only combine to take lives and destroy families.

He added s the wish that something so painful would not be repeated and sent condolences to the noble American people.

On Tuesday, an 18-year-old man shot at students and teachers at the Robb Educational Center in Uvalde, near San Antonio,  and was shot and killed by police forces shortly after that.

As the national debate on gun policy in the United States intensifies, flags flew at half-mast on Tuesday for the national mourning decreed by President Joseph Biden. He called to confront the gun lobby and promote more regulations.

Tuesday's shooting was the second mass shooting in the country in the last 10 days, after the attack by a white supremacist that killed 10 people -most of them black- in Buffalo, New York.