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  • 5 killed, 5 policemen wounded in mass shooting in Midwest U.S.

    5 killed, 5 policemen wounded in mass shooting in Midwest U.S. (Xinhua/Wang Ping)

    A police car is seen near the manufacturing plant where a mass shooting incident occurred in Aurora, the United States, on Feb. 15, 2019.

    A gunman killed five people and injured five police officers in a manufacturing plant in Aurora, a suburb of Chicago, on Friday, local police said.

    Aurora police chief Kristen Ziman said in a news conference that the gunman, who was also killed and identified as 45-year-old Gary Martin, attacked his place of employment, the Henry Pratt Company in the city, around 65 km west of Chicago, the most populous city in the U.S. state of Illinois.