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started by Anna Holman on 02 Sep 12
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    Two men and women had been killed and at least eight were wounded in a shooting outdoors the landmark Empire State Building in New York City on Friday, according to a police source.

    One particular of the dead was the shooter, the supply stated, adding that there was no apparent link to terrorism.

    "I heard the gunshots," said Dahlia Anister, 33, who functions at an office near the 102-story Empire State Building. "It was like pop, pop, pop. It was absolutely in a bunch." Click for World War II Museum

    The victims were shot shortly right after 9 a.m. on the sidewalk on Fifth Avenue outdoors the constructing in Midtown Manhattan.

    The shooting broke out at the height of the tourist season outside one of New York City's most well-liked attractions, startling tourists and commuters in one of the busiest places of the city.

    The constructing is two blocks from Pennsylvania Station, one particular of New York City's primary transportation hubs.

    The United States has had two other mass shooting cases this summer. On July 20, James Holmes, 24, allegedly opened fire at a midnight screening of the Batman film "The Dark Knight Rises" in Aurora, Colorado, killing 12 folks and wounding 58.

    On August 5, a gunman killed six people and critically wounded three at a Sikh temple outside Milwaukee just before police shot him dead in an attack authorities treated as an act of domestic terrorism.

    The Empire State Building was the world's tallest developing for 40 years from its completion in 1931 until construction of the Planet Trade Center. Following the September 11, 2001, attacks, it was once more the tallest constructing in the city.

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