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Added on the 04/12/2015 16:28:06 - Copyright : Reuters EN
Police and firefighters guard the area around a post office in Japan's Warabi city late Tuesday as a suspected gunman holds an unknown number of people hostage. IMAGES
Police officers are seen outside Schemengees Bar & Grille, one of the locations where a gunman carried out a mass shooting that resulted in 18 deaths in Lewiston, Maine. Police has waged a major manhunt for the gunman. The rampage also left 13 people wounded, three of them in critical condition, with a wide area under lockdown as schools were closed, roadblocks erected and residents ordered to stay indoors. IMAGES
Family members and soldiers mourn the death of 22-year-old Shilo Yosef Amir, shot dead by a Palestinian gunman near a settlement in the occupied West Bank. He was the second Israeli soldier to be killed within a week as violence surges again in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. IMAGES
The gunman who killed 10 people and wounded 10 others in a mass shooting at a dance club in California remains at large and has been described as an Asian man, law enforcement officials tells reporters in Monterey Park. SOUNDBITE
Robert "Bobby" Crimo III, who is suspected of killing six people and injuring dozens in a shooting at a Fourth of July parade in a suburb of Chicago, wore women's clothing to facilitate his escape, a police spokesman says in Highland Park, Illinois. SOUNDBITE