Monterey Park: Nine people dead after shooting near LA, police say - BBC

Nine radical person died pursuing a shooting astatine a concern premises successful the Californian metropolis of Monterey Park, constabulary said.

The incidental happened astatine astir 22:20 section clip connected Saturday (06:20 GMT connected Sunday).

Thousands of radical had earlier gathered successful the metropolis for the Monterey Park Lunar New Year festival.

Police person not yet said however galore radical were injured successful the shooting, oregon if they person made immoderate arrests.

The Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department said the fishy successful the shooting is male.

Videos connected societal media showed a ample constabulary beingness successful the city, which is located astir 8 miles (13km) eastbound of Los Angeles.

An eyewitness told the Los Angeles Times that 3 radical ran into his edifice and told him to fastener the doorway arsenic determination was a antheral with a instrumentality weapon successful the area.

The yearly Lunar New Year festival is simply a weekend-long lawsuit that has antecedently drawn crowds of much than 100,000 visitors.

Saturday night's festivities were scheduled to extremity astatine 21:00 section time.

Monterey Park has a colonisation of astir 60,000 radical and is location to a ample Asian community.

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