One dead and 11 wounded in U.S. shooting

ONE man has died and 11 people have been wounded in a shooting in Minneapolis. Chaotic scenes saw people ducking into restaurants and other businesses for cover during the incident which happened shortly after midnight on Sunday.

The shooting broke out in the city’s Uptown neighbourhood, a nightlife hub with bars, restaurants and shops.

Police originally said 10 people had been shot with “various severity levels of injuries”, but later revised their total upwards.

The man died in hospital, not at the scene, police said, with none of the other injuries considered life-threatening.

Police said they believed there was more than one gunman, described only as “individuals on foot”.

No-one was in custody, and police have not said what may have prompted the shooting. All of the people injured were adults.

Footage posted on Facebook shows the scene in the immediate aftermath of the attack. Screams can be heard as small crowds of people gathered, with some crouched over people lying on the pavement before police officers on bicycles arrived to attend to them.

Fred Hwang, a manager at Hoban Korean BBQ, said he was working on the front door when he heard shots from the pavement a couple of shops down.

Mr Hwang described hearing “a lot of shots” and said it appeared to be groups of people shooting at each other.

The Uptown area is about three miles west of the Minneapolis commercial area and neighbourhood hit by rioting in the wake of George Floyd’s death on May 25 after being arrested by Minneapolis police.