At least eight people were shot dead in the city of Indianapolis a United States on Thursday night by a gunman who probably committed suicide, police said.
All the victims were found in Fedex facilities, Near the city’s international airport, where a gunman opened fire, police spokeswoman Genae Cook told reporters.
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Other people were taken to hospital, Added the police, without specifying the number. A man working at the plant told a local television that he saw the armed individual when he started firing.
“I saw the guy with a submachine gun, or an automatic rifle, and he started firing outdoors. I immediately crouched down, scared“Said Jeremiah Miller.
According to the police spokeswoman, the gunman he would have committed suicide.
A Fedex spokesman confirmed to AFP that his plant was the scene of a shooting and said the company was collaborating with authorities.
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“We are aware of the tragic shooting at our plant near Indianapolis Airport“The company said in a statement more than 4,000 people, According to press reports.
the sergeant John PerrineThe Indiana State Police Public Information Officer asked relatives of Fedex employees to meet at a local Holiday Inn hotel. A live video showed a police tape at the scene of the incident, which has occurred after several mass shootings in recent weeks in the United States.
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Shooting in Indianapolis (United States).
Succession of shootings
Late last month, four people, including a child, were shot dead in an office building in Southern California.
the March 22, Ten people were killed in a shooting at a grocery store in Boulder, Colorado. Nearly 40,000 people die each year in the United States because of guns, and more than half are suicides.
the president Joe Biden announce this month 6 measures to contain gun violence.
On March 31, four people, including a nine-year-old boy, they were killed near Los Angeles, A shooting that followed two other killings, in Boulder (Colorado) and Atlanta (Georgia), which had left 18 dead the same month.
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Nearly 40,000 people die each year in the United States because of guns, and more than half are suicides. President Biden announced this month 6 measures to contain the “epidemic” which in his view is the violence caused by the weapons of
fire in the country.
The president presented a limited plan to prevent the spread of so-called “ghost weapons” – handcrafted, sometimes with 3D printers – which are impossible to track if used in a crime. He also proposed increasing regulations for arm supports designed to stabilize the weapon, a device used by the suspect in the Colorado shooting.
Biden indicated that his proposals are just a starting point and called on Congress to legislate to get measures like background check and end the sale of assault rifles that are often the weapon used in the mass shootings.
AFP
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