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Houston gunman opens fire at US mall before being shot | |
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Several people have been wounded in a shooting at a shopping centre at Houston in the US state of Texas, reports say. | Several people have been wounded in a shooting at a shopping centre at Houston in the US state of Texas, reports say. |
Local media report that the police shot the suspect, but nearby residents were asked to avoid the area. | Local media report that the police shot the suspect, but nearby residents were asked to avoid the area. |
Houston police said they did not believe any other people were involved in the shooting. | |
They said on Twitter they did not know the "exact number or severity of injuries". | |
The shooting comes three days after a shooting at a shopping mall in Washington state, in which five people were killed. | |
The gunman in that attack, Arcan Cetin, 20, was born in Turkey and is a legal US permanent resident, officials say. | |
The FBI have said there was no evidence that the shooting was linked to terrorism. | |
Ten days ago, a 20-year-old man stabbed 10 people at a Minnesota shopping centre before being shot dead by an off-duty police officer. |