MINNEAPOLIS (Minnesota, US), May 31 (NNN-AGENCIES) — As many as three people, including a police officer, were killed and several others wounded by gunfire on Thursday in Minneapolis, according to law enforcement sources.
The Minneapolis Police Department said on its social media feeds that officers were “responding to an active incident” in which six people, two of them police officers, were “reported injured”.
“This continues to be a fluid situation,” the police department said, urging members of the public to avoid an area of the city’s Whittier neighbourhood where the incident occurred.
No further official details were immediately available. Police initially reported the incident at about 6.15pm local time.
Minneapolis television station KMSP citing unnamed law enforcement sources reported that six people were shot – two police officers and four civilians. One officer and two other individuals were dead.
Another local station citing sources reported one officer was dead and another hospitalised, while multiple civilians were wounded by gunfire. — NNN-AGENCIES
