Rush hour shooting in Brooklyn subway in New York injured at least 16 people And triggered view of Chaos on Tuesday, as panicked passengers from a smoke-filled train fled to the platform.
Ambulances lined up street outside At the 36th Street subway station, where an NYPD spokeswoman told AFP officers responded to a 911. call of One person was killed at 8:27 am (1227 GMT).
The incident provoked an intense police response, with Several suspects are still at large hours Later.
as per multiple media Reports, the police were chasing for man in Gas mask and orange construction jacket, who NBC said he may have tossed a smoke can before the shooting.
The accident began as the train was “slowly progressing” toward the 36th Street platform, one Passenger, Yv Montano, for CNN. He said the smoke was starting to fill up car It was in.
“There is a lot of blood on The floor said, “Right now, I didn’t think it was a shooting because it looked like fireworks.”
Passengers crowded forward of The car Montano said, but the door to next car It is locked.
“it was there people in the other thing car who witnessed what was happening. They tried to open the door, but they couldn’t.”
Circulation of unverified video footage on social media sound show The smoke-filled train heads toward the 36th Street station and passengers rush out off On the wagon, some were apparently injured.
separate video posted on Instagram appeared for show Passengers tend to bloodied victims on Smoke station platform.
those pictures, also Unchecked, subway employees were shown tending terrified passengers, some still clutching morning coffee cups, off Platform and carriages of stationary train.
An unidentified person can be heard saying that a fire It was set in the train carand that he saw “at least eight people” shooting.
The city’s fire Department gave the toll of 16 injured, while ABC News quoted police sources as saying at least five people killing in the incident
The police department tweeted, “No active improvised explosive devices at this time. fire The administration told AFP that “several unexploded ordnances” were recovered from the scene.
“Please stay. clear of The areaNYPD tweeted, urging witnesses to call the police information line with Which information.
The White House said President Joe Biden has been briefed on accident was in Telecommunications with New York officials.
New York Governor Kathy Hoshol tweeted this first Respondents were on The scene is promised regular Updates as the investigation unfolds.
Mass shootings among the victims with The relative frequency in The United States, where firearms are used in Nearly 40,000 deaths a yearincluding suicides, according to the Archives of Gun Violence website.
Shooting in New York City has risen this yearand height in violent gun crime was the central focus for Mayor Eric Adams since then took office in January. As of April 3, the number of shootings increased to 296 from 260 during the same period last yearaccording to police statistics.
the accident came just A day after Biden announced new gun Control measures, restrictions increase on The so-called “stealth guns”, weapons that are difficult to track and which can be assembled home.
laxity gun Laws and the constitutional right to bear arms have repeatedly frustrated attempts to clamp down. down on the number of arms in Circulation, though greater controls It is preferred by the majority of Americans.
Three-quarters of All the murders in The United States is committed with Guns and numbers of Pistols, revolvers and other firearms sold continue rise.
