The precise variety of victims and their circumstances weren’t instantly recognized. (Representational)

New York:

A shooter opened hearth on a psychiatric hospital within the northeastern US state of New Hampshire on Friday, killing one particular person earlier than being fatally shot by police, authorities mentioned.

The suspect entered the New Hampshire Hospital in Concord and shot one particular person within the foyer, state police Colonel Mark Hall mentioned.

“A state trooper assigned to the hospital and in close proximity immediately engaged, shot and killed the suspect,” he instructed a information convention, including that the assault was confined to the hospital foyer.

Hall didn’t determine the shooter or the sufferer.

“There is no threat to the public, and there was no threat to the patients or staff at the hospital,” he mentioned.

New Hampshire Hospital within the state capital Concord is a 185-bed inpatient facility that treats sufferers with acute psychological sickness.

Shootings are alarmingly widespread within the United States, a rustic the place there are extra weapons than folks and the place makes an attempt to clamp down on their unfold are all the time met with stiff resistance.

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