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Batman US cinema shooting: Fourteen dead in Denver | |
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At least 14 people have been killed in a shooting at a Batman film premiere in the US city of Denver, police say. | |
About 50 people have been injured in the incident at the cinema complex in the suburb of Aurora. | |
Witnesses say a gunman wearing a gas mask opened fire during a midnight showing of The Dark Knight Rises. | |
A man was arrested in a car park nearby in possession of a rifle and hand-gun. He told police that explosives were stored at his home. | |
Police chief Dan Oates told reporters that an apartment block in the north of Aurora had been evacuated as a consequence of that information. | |
More weapons may have been left in the cinema, he said. | |
"Witnesses tell us he released some sort of canister. They heard a hissing sound and some gas emerged and the gunman opened fire," the police chief said. | |
"The shooting apparently went on for some time," he said. | |
Ten people were killed at the cinema and four others died later at hospital of their wounds, he said. | |
The FBI, which is working with the police, say there is no terrorism link so far in their investigations, ABC reports. | |
Many ambulances are at the scene and the Swedish Medical Center, not the area's main hospital, told the BBC it had received several gunshot victims and expected more. | |
A witness told 9News that during a shooting scene in the film he heard loud bangs and a lot of smoke and initially thought they were live special effects put on by the cinema. | A witness told 9News that during a shooting scene in the film he heard loud bangs and a lot of smoke and initially thought they were live special effects put on by the cinema. |
Projectiles came through the wall from the neighbouring theatre screening, the witness said. | |
CNN quoted one witness saying: "A guy slowly making his way up the stairs and firing - picking random people." | |
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