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Drive-by shooting reported in Italy, gunman captured
Police haven’t said how many people have been wounded in the shootings in the city of Macerata. News reports put the number of wounded between two and four.
Italian police say a drive-by shooting has left wounded in the central city of Macerata, and authorities are warning citizens to remain indoors. Police did not say how many were injured in the town, which has a population of 43,000. Italian news reports said that the car contained two people. Macerata’s mayor has urged citizens to stay indoors on February 3 while the suspects remain at-large. Police say the victims are all foreigners.
The city of Macerata’s Twitter account says the gunman has been captured about two hours after he began a shooting rampage from a black automobile. Macerata was the scene of a gruesome killing earlier this week of a white Italian woman. The chief suspect in that killing is a Nigerian.
Police haven’t said how many people have been wounded in the shootings. The ANSA news agency reported four victims have been wounded while Sky TG24 put the number of wounded at two, with ANSA claiming two of the injured were black. ANSA also said quoting witnesses reports that the car was seen in the area where the woman’s body was found.
Sky said the shooting started around 11 a.m. (3.30 p.m. IST), and that students were being kept inside schools which are open on February 3 and public transport had been halted.
