Tuesday, January 19, 2010

Virginia Shootings Leave Several Dead




A lone gunman has killed and injured a number of people in central Virginia, police in the US state say.

They say more than 100 police officers have surrounded the suspect in a wooded area just outside of Appomattox.

The violence began shortly after noon on Tuesday local time when an injured man was found on a rural stretch of road, the Associated Press reports.

A police helicopter that responded to the incident was fired on and forced to land with a ruptured fuel tank.

The officers were not injured.

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