Several dead in Colorado shootings

Gunman killed after deadly rampage at Christian youth centre and church in the US.

Colorado Shootings Church
Worried church-goers waited for news [Reuters]

One of the injured at the church later died.

 

Lieutenant Fletcher Howard said police were not sure if a second gunman was still at large but had cordoned off the church and locked down several buildings.

 

Gun debate

 

In the first incident hours earlier in the town Arvada, police said a man opened fire and killed two employees of the Youth with a Mission (YWAM) organisation.

Two other men, aged 22 and 23, were being treated for gunshot wounds, a police statement said.

 

YWAM said a young man who had gone to the YWAM dormitory asking for a place to stay but was told he could not be accommodated there, pulled out a handgun and opened fire shortly after midnight.

 
The shootings come after a teenager armed with a semi-automatic rifle opened fire on Christmas shoppers at an Omaha shopping centre on Wednesday, killing at least eight people before turning the gun on himself.

The incident in Nebraska revived the debate about gun crime in the US, which the authorities say is home to more than 200 million privately owned firearms for a population of just over 300 million.

Source: News Agencies