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Law enforcement officials are attempting to discover what led a couple to shoot and kill 14 people at a social services centre in San Bernardino.
Tashfeen Malik, 29, and her husband Syed Rizwan Farook, 28, left their six-month-old daughter with Farook's mother before perpetrating what is thought to be the worst mass shooting since 26 were killed in Newtown, Connecticut, in 2012.
Malik was killed alongside her husband four hours later in a shootout with police.
On Friday, the FBI said it is beginning to investigate the shooting as an "act of terrorism" as it was revealed Malik had pledged allegiance to Isis in a now-deleted Facebook post .
Tashfeen Malik, left, and Syed Farook died in a shoot-out with police (AP) The FBI has acknowledged knowing little about Malik. It is unclear when she became radicalised, or who radicalised her.
FBI officers have indicated she and Farook probably "self-radicalised" online.
Authorities discovered a huge arsenal of guns, ammunition and pipe-bombs in the couple's home, suggesting they had been planning additional attacks.
Weapons used by the suspects (San Bernardino County Sheriff's Department/ Facebook) The remains of a SUV involved in the Wednesdays attack is shown in San Bernardino, California December 3, 2015 (Reuters) It has been reported Malik moved to Saudi Arabia with her father at a young age, and lived there until 2007.
She is then believed to have returned to Pakistan to attend a pharmacology school at Bahauddin Zakariya university.
An intelligence official said she was a "good student with no religious extremist tendencies". She did not work as a pharmacist in the US.
In pictures: San Bernardino shootingShow all 15 1 /15In pictures: San Bernardino shooting In pictures: San Bernardino shooting A couple embraces following a shooting that killed multiple people at a social services facility, in San Bernardino
In pictures: San Bernardino shooting A victim is wheeled away on a stretcher following a shooting that killed multiple people at a social services facility, in San Bernardino
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In pictures: San Bernardino shooting Rescue crews tend to the injured in the intersection outside the Inland Regional Center in San Bernardino
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In pictures: San Bernardino shooting A survivor (2nd L) of the mass shooting at the Inland Regional Center meets her family after police questioning in San Bernardino
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In pictures: San Bernardino shooting An armed police officer protects a busload of people who were inside the Inland Regional Center where gunmen shot and killed 14 people and injured another 14, to be escorted to meet relatives at the Rudy Hernandez Community Center in San Bernardino
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In pictures: San Bernardino shooting People wait at a community center for a family member who was near a shooting that killed multiple people at a social services center, in San Bernardino, California
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In pictures: San Bernardino shooting In this image taken from video, armored vehicles surround an SUV following a shootout in San Bernardino
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In pictures: San Bernardino shooting Law enforcement officers search for the suspects of a mass shooting in San Bernardino
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In pictures: San Bernardino shooting Law enforcement officers search for the suspects of a mass shooting in San Bernardino
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In pictures: San Bernardino shooting The Inland Regional Center complex is pictured in an aerial photo following a shooting incident in San Bernardino
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In pictures: San Bernardino shooting Authorities prepare to search an area near a church, following a shooting that killed multiple people at a social services center for the disabled in San Bernardino
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In pictures: San Bernardino shooting Evacuees from the scene of a shooting at the Inland Regional Center hug each other as they wait inside the Rudy C Hernandez Community Center in San Bernardino
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In pictures: San Bernardino shooting Omar Riopedre embraces his wife Diana, who was in the Inland Regional Center when the mass shootings took place, as they leave the Rudy C. Hernandez Community Center in the San Bernardino
In pictures: San Bernardino shooting A Sheriff's Deputy runs after reports that suspects in the shooting at the Inland Regional Center were sighted in San Bernardino
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In pictures: San Bernardino shooting Law enforcement officers search for suspects in a neighborhood after a shooting at the Inland Regional Center in San Bernardino
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Malik and Farook met in 2013 on the annual pilgrimage to Mecca, The Guardian reports .
They married shortly after, and she entered the US on a K-1 visa, which is provided for spouses of American citizens.
Security officials say she visited Pakistan again in 2013 and 2014, but it is unclear who she met or where she visited.
Local mosque leaders said she was not well known in the local Muslim community.
Neither Malik or Farook were known to local police or the FBI.
Additional reporting by Reuters
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