MIAMI — A shooter was killed on Friday after opening fire at a US naval base in Florida and killing at least two people, police and military officials said. Escambia County Sheriff’s Office said in a message on Twitter it could “confirm there is no longer an active shooter on NAS Pensacola. The shooter is confirmed dead.”ADVERTISEMENTNaval Air Station Pensacola was put on lockdown, with the US Navy on Twitter reporting “one additional fatality.” In a later tweet, it said “a second victim has been confirmed deceased.”The Pensacola News Journal said two people suffered critical injuries and a third non-critical wounds. On Wednesday, a US sailor fatally shot two people and wounded a third at the Pearl Harbor Naval Shipyard in Hawaii before taking his own life. Four years before that, Major Nidal Hasan, a US Army psychiatrist, killed 13 people and wounded more than 30 others at Fort Hood.

Source: Philippine Daily Inquirer December 06, 2019 15:11 UTC