The shooting took place near the departure terminal at Vancouver's airport and a man was fatally shot, Canadian officials said, indicating that it was a gang related incident.
The three victims were hospitalised in Manhattan, and their lives were not in danger, a NYPD spokesperson said.
Initial information shows a land dispute caused a shooting in which five brothers and three of their male cousins were killed in the city of Jalalabad in Nangarhar province, the governor said.
Vaccination drive temporarily suspended in Nangarhar province after three women healthcare workers were killed in two separate attacks in the restive eastern city of Jalalabad.
Attacker had purchased a Ruger AR-556 pistol, a weapon that resembles a semi-automatic rifle, six days before the shooting, and his family had seen him fiddling with the gun days before the attack.
Officials confirmed that one injured suspect is in custody, and is being provided with medical treatment. The motive of the attack being investigated.
The attack was the sixth mass killing this year in the US, and the deadliest since the August 2019 Dayton, Ohio, shooting that left nine people dead. It follows a lull in mass killings during the pandemic in 2020.
Shootings come as reports of attacks against Asian-Americans, primarily elders, have spiked in recent months fueled during the Covid-19 pandemic by talk of the “Chinese virus” by former president Donald Trump and others.
Fathi Bashagha didn’t suffer any injury during the attack in which, his convoy was targeted by gunmen, two of them have been arrested and the third one was killed, the Libyan interior ministry said.
Texas Governor Greg Abbott has confirmed in a statement that a suspect had been apprehended after the shooting in the Starrville Methodist Church in the town of Winona.
Ankara "strongly condemns" terror attacks in central Vienna that left at least three people dead and several others wounded.
At least eight others were wounded in the shooting, Greenville County sheriff's office said. The incident comes two days after an 8-year-old boy was killed in a shooting at an Alabama shopping mall.
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