Shooting involving 'multiple shooters' leaves at least three dead and 11 injured on the street in Philadelphia, local police say

In less than two weeks, more than 20 multiple-victim shootings have taken place across the countryaccording to the association Gun Violence Archive.

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Published on 05/06/2022 11:39

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Police establish a cordon after a shooting in Philadelphia (United States), April 6, 2022. (MATT ROURKE / AP / SIPA) — Police establish a cordon after a shooting in Philadelphia (United States), April 6, 2022. (MATT ROURKE/AP/SIPA)

The morbid series of killings continues in the United States. At least three people were killed and eleven others injured on Saturday evening, June 4, during a shooting in a crowded street in Philadelphia (Pennsylvania), police said in this city in the northeast of the country. The three victims are two men and a woman, “suffering from multiple gunshot wounds”. The police who visited the scene “observed several active shooters opening fire on the crowd” in the busy South Street area of Philadelphia.

“You can imagine there were hundreds of people enjoying South Street like every weekend when this shooting broke out”, said the police. At this point, two handguns have been found at the scene and no arrests have been reported.

Since the massacre in a school in Uvalde, Texas, on May 24, which left 21 dead, there have been more than twenty shootings with several victims in the United States, according to the association Gun Violence Archive.