The incident took place at the girl’s 16th birthday party. (Representative)
Washington, United States:
At least 20 people were shot and injured at a Sweet 16 birthday party late Saturday in the southern US state of Alabama, local media reported.
Television station WRBL reported heavy police activity and crime scene tapes around a building in Dadeville, Alabama, early Sunday, where it said white sheets could be seen covering parts of the floor.
Law enforcement agencies have not publicly confirmed any injuries or deaths, but local media and witnesses have said that several injured people, most of them teenagers, have been taken to local hospitals for medical treatment.
WRBL reported that during a preliminary investigation, police and sheriff’s office investigators suspected the shooting occurred at a teen’s birthday party at around 10:30 p.m. Saturday (0330 GMT Sunday).
The United States, a country of some 330 million people, is littered with some 400 million guns, and fatal mass shootings are a regular occurrence.
Police confirmed late Saturday that two people were killed and four others were injured in a shooting in Louisville, Kentucky, the same city in which a gunman killed five people at a bank last Monday.
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