shooting

  • UK police arrest man for firing directly into car with children

    A 22-year-old man has been arrested after an eight-year-old girl and a man were seriously injured in a shooting in west London. The incident on Southern Row in Ladbroke Grove involved a number of people in a vehicle – including a two-year-old child – just after 5.30pm on Sunday. The eight-year-old girl remains in surgery…

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  • 2024 Paris Olympics: S Korea’s Yang wins women’s 25m pistol gold in shooting

    South Korea’s Yang Ji-in won the gold in the women’s 25 metres pistol event at the Paris Olympics on Saturday. France’s Camille Jedrzejewski won the silver, while Hungary’s Veronika Major took bronze. Yang and Jedrzejewski were tied on 37 points, forcing a shoot-off in which the Korean prevailed 4-1 at the Chateauroux Shooting Centre. Major…

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  • 2 Killed, many injured in Texas shooting

    A shooting left two people dead and several wounded on Saturday night near the capital city of the U.S. state of Texas, local police said. The shooting took place before 11 p.m. Saturday (0400 GMT Sunday) during a Juneteenth celebration at Old Settlers Park in Round Rock, about 19 miles (30.4 km) north of Austin.…

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  • Suspect who shot Slovak PM remanded in prison

    The Specialised Criminal Court in Pezinok, Slovakia, has remanded in custody the man accused of the attempted murder of Prime Minister Robert Fico, court spokeswoman Katarina Kudjakova said on Saturday. The decision is not yet final, the spokeswoman was quoted by the News Agency of the Slovak Republic (TASR) as saying. A prosecutor of the…

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  • Police confirm shooting in Anambra nightclub, recover bodies

    Anambra State Police Command has confirmed the killing of local vigilante operatives in Oba, Idemili North Local Government Area of the State, in a nightclub, Porsche. Spokesperson of the state police command, DSP Tochukwu Ikenga confirmed this to reporters. He said: “Yes, the incident happened. Our men were alerted and they quickly moved to the…

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  • Shootings are a grim part of life in the US – but it’s clear this is one of the big ones It was just after 8pm when I saw the first US shooting update, a tweet from the local police force: “There is an active shooter in Lewiston. We ask people to shelter in place.” Filters…

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  • A gunman was on the loose on Friday after killing eight people and wounding 13 others near Belgrade, local media reported, the second deadly mass shooting around the Serbian capital in two days. Heavily armed police set up roadblocks near the town of Mladenovac, 42km south of Belgrade, and were searching for a 21-year-old suspect.…

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  • The man charged in a California church shooting, allegedly motivated by his political hatred for Taiwan, had mailed several documents to a Chinese-language newspaper before the incident, the newspaper reported. On Wednesday, World Journal, the largest Chinese-language newspaper in the United States, reported that before Sunday’s shooting, David Chou, 68, mailed seven photocopied volumes of…

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  • UK Police have been giving more details of the shooting that left six people dead – including the gunman – in Plymouth, southwest England on Thursday evening. Shaun Sawyer, chief constable of Devon and Cornwall police, named the shooter as Jake Davison, aged 22. “This was a truly shocking event and was witnessed by members of…

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  • An former employee at a company near Orlando, Florida, has shot and killed five persons in a revenge attack, media reports confirm. The incident which occurred earlier in the day was believed to be a follow-up from some altercations between the shooter and his fellow workers nearly three years ago. He harbored the anger while planning…

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  • At least, nine people were injured early Monday when a man armed with several weapons opened fire on vehicles in southwest Houston, the largest city in the U.S. state of Texas. The attacker was said to be wearing a military attire with Nazi emblems. Image shows police at the site where gunshots were fired. According the…

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