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Gunman dead after multiple shootings at New York hospital

Author
Newstalk ZB Staff,
Publish Date
Sat, 1 Jul 2017, 8:33AM
Emergency services attend a shooting at the Bronx Lebanon Hospital. Photo: dotemirates / Twitter
Emergency services attend a shooting at the Bronx Lebanon Hospital. Photo: dotemirates / Twitter

Gunman dead after multiple shootings at New York hospital

Author
Newstalk ZB Staff,
Publish Date
Sat, 1 Jul 2017, 8:33AM

UPDATED 12.50pm: A female doctor is dead - and several others are fighting for life - after one of their former colleagues opened fire inside the New York hospital he used to work in.

He went on a shooting spree before killing himself with his gun.

As least one of the wounded doctors was being treated by people inside the hospital who fashioned a tourniquet from an emergency fire hose, according to the official.

As many as five or six people may have been wounded, The New York Times said, citing a law enforcement official who spoke on condition of anonymity.

CBS News reported that the gunman had a rifle and had barricaded himself inside the building.

New York Police Department spokesman Peter Donald posted a message a short time later on Twitter, saying, "One shooter is deceased at the hospital." It was not immediately clear whether police were looking for any other suspects.

On Twitter, the New York Police Department told members of the public to avoid the area around the hospital.

New York Mayor Bill de Blasio said many staff and patients have been left traumatised by the ordeal, and that "doctors and nurses responded with extraordinary bravery."

 

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