United States: a deadly shooting in the middle of the street in Philadelphia
The shooting took place in a crowded street in Philadelphia (photo illustration).
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Three people were killed and eleven others injured Saturday night in a shootout with multiple gunmen on a crowded street in Philadelphia, in the northeastern United States.
This was announced by the police.
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Fourteen people, to our knowledge, were shot and hospitalized
," Philadelphia Police Inspector DF Pace told reporters.
"
Three of these people, two men and one woman, were pronounced dead after arriving at hospitals with multiple gunshot wounds
."
Saturday night in Philadelphia.
A mass shooting on 4th & South Street with reports of nearly a dozen people shot.
I'm on scene where police have cordoned off the popular weekend strip, a trail of what appears to be blood snaking along the sidewalk in front of a Rita's Water Ice.
pic.twitter.com/mkUoTvgy2I
— Max M. Marin (@MaxMMarin) June 5, 2022
Inspector Pace told
local media
that officers who attended the scene "
observed several active shooters opening fire on the crowd
" in the busy South Street area of Philadelphia.
According to him, the police opened fire on one of the shooters but it is not known if he was hit.
Local media reported that no arrests had been made.
According to Inspector Pace, two handguns were found on the spot and the police must wait until the morning to examine the images of the surveillance cameras of the surrounding businesses which were closed on Saturday evening.
The investigation is proceeding "
smoothly
", with "
many unanswered questions
", he added.
Since the May 24 shooting at a school in
Uvalde
, Texas, which killed 21 people, there have been more than 20 multiple-victim shootings in the United States, according to the Gun Violence Archive association.
(
With
AFP)
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