Current event: New
Orleans Mother's Day parade hit by shooting
By: Seojin Kim
From: BBC News
Original Story
Nineteen people have been wounded in a shooting at a
Mother's Day parade in the US city of New Orleans, police say.
The victims included two children who were grazed by
bullets. Police say most injuries are not life-threatening.
It is unclear what sparked the shooting in the city's 7th
Ward on Sunday afternoon. Police say three suspects were seen fleeing the area.
The incident happened at about 14:00 (19:00 GMT) at the
intersection of Frenchmen and Villere streets.
"Shots were fired with different guns," a police
statement said.
"Immediately after the shooting our officers saw
three suspects running from the scene."
FBI spokeswoman Mary Beth Romig said they had "no reason to believe it was an act of terror, just street violence".The statement said 10 men, seven women, a 10-year-old boy and a 10-year-old girl were wounded by gunfire.
'Drumbeat of violence'
The shooting happened at what is known as a second-line
parade - an impromptu community procession in which people dance down the
street behind the official parade.
About 200 people were in the area at the time.
Local resident Gretchen Ramke, 30, said she heard
"six or seven" shots ring out about 30ft (9m) from where she stood
with a friend.
"Somebody in the crowd yelled 'everybody get down',
so we did. We just hit the deck. We saw a lot of people diving to the
ground," she told the BBC.
"We waited about 40 seconds and the firing had
stopped. We thought: we've got to get out of here."
She said she saw one man with a shot wound to his arm
being helped by another man, who used his belt and a t-shirt to dress the
wound.
"We saw the man who had been shot a few minutes
later calmly walking past us with the belt around his arm," she said.
New Orleans Mayor Mitch Landrieu called it a "tragic
day" and appealed for an end to what he called the "relentless
drumbeat of violence" on the city's streets.
The BBC's Jane Little in Washington says New Orleans has
a high rate of gun crime.
The area where the shooting happened is a poor
neighbourhood that is still recovering from the devastation left by Hurricane
Katrina in 2005, she adds.
My
Current Event
In New Orleans, Louisiana, USA, there was
another gun shooting affair.
The accident was started about 2am during
parade of Mother's day, and nineteen people got hurts by gun shooting.
Report says that young girl and young boy age
about ten were include in injured people of these affair.
The police chasing the three suspect, but
they didn't arrest yet.
Authorities of police investigating about
this affair were crime that seeks particular person or affair that is just fire
at random.
But, Mary Beth Romig, in FBI, who is
spokeswoman, she didn't discover of these affair sign.
5 vocabulary
words
Affair- the problem that happen in society
Parade- job that people in row and moving
forward in festival
Suspect- person that has doubt or guessing
that has doubt
Arrest- stealing person's freedom
Investigating- finding and researching about
problem
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