The injured were taken to health centers and, according to police spokesmen told the media, “two men and one woman were declared dead after arriving at hospitals with multiple gunshot wounds.”
According to local media, several attackers would have shot into a crowd in a popular nightclub area.
A police officer who was in the area shot one of the perpetrators of the shooting, after which the man dropped his weapon and fled the scene. The attackers have not been located yet.
The event took place in one of the most popular meeting places in the city and, according to witnesses, it triggered chaos among the people who were there.
Two semi-automatic weapons were recovered at the crime scene, one of them with an extended charger, something that Democratic lawmakers in the country’s Congress will try to ban with a package of gun control measures that are expected to be voted on in the House. of Representatives next week.
The debate on the control of firearms has been reactivated in the US after the death on May 24 of nineteen children and two teachers in an elementary school in Uvalde (Texas) by shots of a young man of 18 years.
The divide between Democrats and Republicans makes it difficult to pass gun control measures in Congress, although there are expectations after a group of senators from both parties have held meetings in recent weeks to try to agree on legislation on the issue.
The president of the United States, Joe Biden, has urged lawmakers to “do something” in the face of what he considers “an epidemic of gun violence” in the country.
The entrance At least three people killed and 11 injured in a shooting in Philadelphia was first published in diary TODAY.
