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US shootings 'cause fatalities' | US shootings 'cause fatalities' |
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A lone gunman has killed and injured a number of people in central Virginia, police in the US state say. | A lone gunman has killed and injured a number of people in central Virginia, police in the US state say. |
They say more than 100 police officers have surrounded the suspect in a wooded area just outside of Appomattox. | |
The violence began shortly after noon on Tuesday local time when an injured man was found on a rural stretch of road, the Associated Press reports. | |
A police helicopter that responded to the incident was fired on and forced to land with a ruptured fuel tank. | |
The officers were not injured. | |
It is not known what prompted the shootings. |