Washington - Saba:
Two people were killed and ten others were injured in a shooting during a popular military parade in New Orleans, US, yesterday, Sunday.
Parade supervisor Anne Kirkpatrick said during a press conference on Sunday evening: “There are two different scenes here. “There are two different shooting events. They are 45 minutes apart.”
She added that nine people were injured and hospitalized. “All of these victims are alive,” she said.
“About 45 minutes after the first shooting in the second line of the parade, another shooting broke out,” she said. According to the police, three more people were injured, noting that the shooting took place inside the crowd.
Kirkpatrick said that two people were killed during the second shooting and another is “in very critical condition.”
Police emphasized that it is still unclear whether the shootings are related as they occurred 45 minutes apart.
“Second Line” parades are informal, community-led processions, often organized by social service clubs, and are part of the rich cultural heritage among the city's black community, referring to the people who follow the main brass band procession, the ‘first line’ of the parade.
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