Philadelphia police curse the killing of three people after a number of gunmen opened fire on a crowd in a crowded street in the city.
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3 dead, 11 injured in Philadelphia shooting
Three people were killed and 11 others wounded, on Saturday, after a number of gunmen opened fire on a crowd on a crowded street in the American city of Philadelphia, police said.
Philadelphia Police Inspector DF Peace told reporters that two men and a woman were killed, noting that security personnel who rushed to respond to the incident “noted that there were a number of people who opened fire on the crowd.”
“You can imagine hundreds of people were enjoying their time in South Street as they are every weekend, when the shooting started,” he added.
He pointed out that the police shot one of the attackers, but it was not known if he was injured. Local media reported that the authorities have not arrested anyone yet.
Pace said two handguns were found at the site and that police would have to wait until morning to see the recordings from the CCTV cameras of businesses that were closed on Saturday night.
Commenting on the investigation, Pace spoke of “many questions that remain unanswered.”
At the same time, police said that three people were killed and 14 others were injured in a shooting near a bar in Chattanooga, Tennessee, US, adding that two people died of gunshot wounds, while the third died of his wounds after being hit by a car while fleeing from the scene of the accident.
Overnight, on Philadelphia’s South Street, yet another mass shooting in this country — at least three people were killed and 11 more injured. pic.twitter.com/uA216gU4Pu
— The Recount (@therecount) June 5, 2022
A few days ago, the Des Moines Register reported, quoting a US police official, that Three people were killed After a shooting at a church in Ames, Iowa. The newspaper added that the shooter is believed to be one of the three dead in the incident at Cornerstone Church.
US President Joe Biden had called for a ban on the sale of assault rifles to individuals in the United States, asking: “How much more massacre do we have to endure?”
This came in a televised speech he gave nine days after the A horrific massacre that killed 19 children And two schools in one school in Texas.
Biden stressed the need to raise the minimum age for purchasing these weapons, which is currently set at 18 years to 21 years