A dark national holiday.

At least five people were killed and sixteen injured in a shooting in the northern United States on Monday during an American Independence Day parade, according to local officials quoted by local media.

The shooter, suspected of having opened fire, is on the run and the festivities have been suspended in Highland Park, an affluent town north of Chicago, (Illinois) and in several surrounding towns, according to the police.

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