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| A fatal shooting appears to have taken place at a supermarket in the eastern US state of New Jersey. | |
| Local media and police officials said that at least three people died in the incident, including the gunman. | Local media and police officials said that at least three people died in the incident, including the gunman. |
| An official told Associated Press that the shooting happened in the early hours of Friday in Old Bridge, a suburb about 25 miles (40km) from New York. | An official told Associated Press that the shooting happened in the early hours of Friday in Old Bridge, a suburb about 25 miles (40km) from New York. |
| The Pathmark grocery shop was closed at the time but several workers were reported to be inside stacking shelves. | |
| Old Bridge mayor Owen Henry told the local Star-Ledger newspaper that the gunman - reportedly a disgruntled worker - had entered the store around 04:00 local time (23:00 GMT Thursday) and shot two people, before turning the gun on himself. | |
| Police evacuated the shop after the shooting and several of the employees were taken across the road to a TGI Friday's restaurant. | |
| The shooting is the latest of a series of firearm incidents in the US. Earlier this month a man opened fire at a Sikh temple in the state of Wisconsin, killing six people before police shot him dead. | |
| Just weeks before, another gunman had killed 12 people during a screening of the new Batman film at a cinema in Aurora, Colorado. |