10 dead in a mass shooting in the United States
Two US police officers at the scene.
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US police announced that 10 people were killed in a mass shooting that occurred late yesterday evening, east of Los Angeles, in the wake of a Lunar New Year celebration that drew thousands.
Los Angeles Police Department Superintendent Bob Boyes said the shooting occurred at a Garvey Street store in Monterey Park.
Monterey Park is a city with a population of about 60 thousand people, inhabited by a large number of Asians and located about 16 kilometers from downtown Los Angeles, and thousands of people attended the annual festival prior to the incident, which lasts two days, and is one of the largest events of the Lunar New Year in Southern California. .
The owner of a restaurant across the street from where the shooting took place told the Los Angeles Times that three people rushed to his restaurant and asked him to close the door, telling him that there was a gunman carrying an automatic rifle with several rounds of ammunition that he was loading the gun with.
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