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USA: Seven injured in Wisconsin firing

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At least seven people were injured in firing in US state of Wisconsin on Sunday.

A least seven people have been injured in a shooting at or near a day spa in the midwestern US state of Wisconsin by an unknown assailant, US media reported Sunday.Police told reporters they were looking for a black male who may be driving a black Mazda as a suspect in the midday shooting in Brookfield, a suburb of Milwaukee.The latest media reports indicated that at least three of the victims were in critical condition, but details were still emerging from the confusion surrounding the shooting.Television footage showed more than a dozen emergency vehicles in the parking lot of a shopping mall across the street, at least part of which has been evacuated. Tactical police teams were also on the scene.A woman ran out of the spa towards the road, screaming and chased by a large black man with a handgun, David Gosh, a local resident, told the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.Gosh, who was returning from duck hunting with his father and a friend, said the police arrived soon after, and the man with the gun ran back towards the building looking for an escape route.Goshs father, John, said he saw two wounded women be taken out of the spa building. One appeared to have been shot in the leg and the other in the back, he told the newspaper.Just down the road, less than a mile away, is the Sheraton Hotel where seven people were killed and four more wounded at a shooting in 2005. The shooter, who opened fire on a Living Church of God service held at the hotel, then committed suicide.
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