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Four people injured in San Francisco-area shopping mall shooting

Two gunshot victims were brought to San Francisco General Hospital and Trauma Center, while two other victims were transported to other medical facilities, hospital spokesman Brent Andrew said in a television interview with ABC News affiliate KGO-TV.

Updated on: Jul 3, 2019, 07:47:18 IST
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Police in the San Francisco suburb of San Bruno, California, said on Monday they were on the scene of a shooting, which local media reported occurred at a shopping mall and left several people injured.

Police detain a man outside of the Tanforan Mall as shoppers are escorted out in San Bruno, Calif., Tuesday, July 2, 2019. Police are searching for suspects after at least two people were wounded in a mall shooting near San Francisco on Tuesday that led to region-wide transit delays at rush hour. (AP Photo/Stephanie Mullen) (AP)
Police detain a man outside of the Tanforan Mall as shoppers are escorted out in San Bruno, Calif., Tuesday, July 2, 2019. Police are searching for suspects after at least two people were wounded in a mall shooting near San Francisco on Tuesday that led to region-wide transit delays at rush hour. (AP Photo/Stephanie Mullen) (AP)

Few official details of the shooting were immediately available.

Two gunshot victims were brought to San Francisco General Hospital and Trauma Center, while two other victims were transported to other medical facilities, hospital spokesman Brent Andrew said in a television interview with ABC News affiliate KGO-TV.

One employee of a shop inside the mall, Angelica Castro, said she saw a “mob of people running” toward her store from the opposite side of shopping center while they were “screaming ‘shooting, shooting, shooting,’ and their faces just had terror.”

CBS affiliate station KPIX said the shooting unfolded at the Tanforan Mall, a shopping center where a witness reported hearing eight gunshots and seeing at least two gunshot victims on the second floor, along with three people in handcuffs.

Local media said the shopping mall in San Bruno, located south of San Francisco, was closed after the gunfire.

The Bay Area Rapid Transit authority said one of its commuter stops was shut down as a precaution after the shooting.

(This story has been published from a wire agency feed without modifications to the text.)

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