Participants and spectators gather during the West Indian Day Parade in the Brooklyn borough of New York, Monday, Sept. 5, 2016. (AP Photo/Craig Ruttle) Participants and spectators gather during the West Indian Day Parade in the Brooklyn borough of New York, Monday, Sept. 5, 2016. Gunfire erupted in three separate incidents during J’Ouvert, a street party tied to the Caribbean Carnival that draws tens of thousands of revelers in the borough of Brooklyn over the Labor Day Weekend. At the same event last year, two people were killed, including a top aide to New York Governor Andrew Cuomo. J’Ouvert takes its name from a word in the French Creole languages of the Caribbean that means “daybreak.” The party is followed by the West Indian Day Parade, which attracts some one million people.

Source: Indian Express September 05, 2016 18:56 UTC