A US man fired from his job shot dead five co-workers at a factory on the outskirts of Chicago and wounded five police officers before being gunned down himself, in the country’s latest mass shooting. “Five employees were located deceased inside the building,” and preliminary reports indicated they were killed before police arrived, Ziman told reporters. In January a gunman killed five people at a bank in Sebring, Florida. A coalition of gun control advocacy groups also condemned the murderous attack, saying it was the 198th mass shooting in the last 10 years. Definitions of “mass shooting” vary, but a Washington Post database has recorded 162 cases in which four or more people were killed since 1966.

Source: Punch February 16, 2019 08:25 UTC