Bullet-proof vests for US school children

5 January 2013 Last updated at 04:10 ET Help

A firm in Colombia which makes bullet-proof vests is now creating body armour for children.

The company says it is responding to a surge in interest from the United States, following the attack on an elementary school in December.

Twenty children and six adults were killed by a gunman at the Sandy Hook school in Connecticut.

John McManus reports.

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