• US military shoots at the base of Pearl Harbor: two dead

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December 06, 2019There is at least one death, in addition to the assailant, in the shooting at the Naval Air Station in Pensacola, a US military base in Florida where there are 16,000 soldiers and 7,400 civilians. The sheriff's office reported it. At least four other people were injured.

According to a first reconstruction man would have opened fire wounding some people. This was announced by the Escambia County Sheriff's Office, which houses the base. The base had been closed at 7 am, after reporting that a man had fired some shots. The police immediately arrived in the area and three helicopter ambulances to help the wounded.

The episode follows that of the other yesterday at Pearl Harbor, the historic naval base 13 km from Honolulu, Hawaii, where a soldier opened fire killing two people and wounding a third before taking his own life shooting himself in the head.