At least four people were killed and dozens injured in a mass shooting involving several attackers in the US state of Alabama.
“We believe multiple people fired multiple shots at a group of people” in the Five Points South neighborhood of Birmingham just after 11pm on Saturday (local time), police officer Truman Fitzgerald told local media.
Officers found two adult men and an adult woman unresponsive on the sidewalk suffering from a gunshot wound, Fitzgerald said.
All three were pronounced dead at the scene. A fourth person died at a local hospital, he added.
Dozens of people were injured in the shooting, including at least four with life-threatening injuries, Fitzgerald said.
The others suffered “various injuries”, he added.
Police have not arrested anyone in the shooting, he said, urging the public to provide any information that could help the investigation.
Multiple agencies are involved in the investigation, including the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.
The firefighters intervened on site and cordoned off the area.
There have been at least 403 mass shootings — defined as shootings involving at least four victims, dead or injured — in the United States this year, according to the Gun Violence Archive.
According to the GVA, at least 12,416 people have been killed by firearms in the United States this year.