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    5 Dead, 8 Injured After Shooting At Fort Lauderdale Airport In Florida

    Darpan News Desk IANS, 06 Jan, 2017 11:50 AM
      Authorities say five people were killed and eight were wounded after a lone suspect opened fire at the Fort Lauderdale, Florida, international airport.
       
      The Broward County Sheriff's Office tweeted the information following Friday afternoon's shooting.
       
      Broward County Mayor Barbara Sharief told CNN that authorities "have an active crime scene investigation involving terminal 2."
       
       
      News stations showed video of medics taking care of a bleeding victim outside the airport. Helicopters hovering over the scene showed hundreds of people standing on the tarmac as an ambulance drove by and numerous law enforcement officers, including tactical units, rushed to the scene.
       
      Former White House spokesman Ari Fleischer tweeted that he was at the airport when shots were fired and "everyone is running."
       
      Broward County Mayor Barbara Sharief told CNN authorities that a lone shooter was responsible for the attack and had been taken into custody.
       
      Jillian Saunders, from Palm Beach, Florida, told The Associated Press in direct Twitter messages that she was watching the activity from the tarmac in a plane scheduled to fly to Los Angeles.
       
      "Everything you see on the news is happening outside my window," she said. "I am luckily on the plane and they said we are right now the safest people at the airport."
       
      Airport officials said on the airport's website that it was suspending flights. Earlier in the day, the Federal Aviation Administration regulated the pace of flights because of heavy volume after morning fog. According to tracking service FlightAware, about 60 flights to and from Fort Lauderdale were delayed and fewer than a dozen canceled before the shooting.
       
       

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