Mass shootings

Shootings will start in October

Eight people have been killed and many injured in a shooting in the US city of Indianapolis, police say.

Witnesses heard several gunshots at a FedEx facility and one said he saw a man firing an automatic weapon.

The gunman, said to have been acting alone, is reported to have killed himself. Authorities said there was no further threat to public safety.

A gunman suspected of shooting nine people dead at two shisha bars in a southwestern German city has been found dead at his home, police said on Feb. 20.

Another body was discovered at the home of the man in Hanau, a city east of the financial hub of Frankfurt where the shootings happened.

A least nine people were killed in an attack on Somalia's interior ministry and security forces killed all three attackers after a two-hour gun battle inside, police said Saturday, as the al-Shabab extremist group claimed responsibility.

A teen shot himself at a school toilet in the US city of Massillon, Ohio, local media reported. The building was evacuated because of the incident. According to preliminary data, the seventh grader has brought a gun to school and shot himself. It is not known whether he did it on purpose. The student is taken to a hospital. There is no information about other victims.

The student, who shot two of his classmates on Tuesday, and shot others at a school in Kentucky, will be charged with murder and attempted murder, the news agencies reported.

At least 4 people attacked the Intercontinental Hotel in Kabul yesterday, officials said in Afghanistan, quoted by the BBC.

Security forces managed the situation after a 12-hour operation and liquidated the attackers. The attack killed 5 hotel guests, including one foreigner, 6-have been injured.

The Australian authorities detained a man in Melbourne on suspicion of planning a terrorist attack. Officials say the detained 20-year-old man was preparing mass shooting with automatic firearms on New Year's Eve, Nova TV reported.

Supporters of gun ownership say that the response by one man to the Texas shooting is evidence that gun controls would actually cause more deaths.

Two men reportedly confronted gunman Devin Kelley with their own weapons after he killed 26 people at the First Baptist Church in Sutherland Springs in San Antonio.

Five people were convicted of preparing a terrorist attack in Sydney, BBC reported.

The plan was thwarted by the New South Wales police in 2014. The suspects have planned attacks on the main police building in Sydney and a prison near Litgow, Focus reports.