No fewer than four people were killed yesterday at an airport in Las Vegas, after two small planes collided in midair in a very bizarre situation.
A single-engine Piper PA-46 plane was preparing to land at North Las Vegas Airport in the US state of Nevada around noon local time, when it collided with a single-engine Cessna 172, the Federal Aviation Administration said in a statement which was obtained by Africa Today News, New York.
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‘The Piper crashed… in a field east of Runway 30-Right and the Cessna fell into a water retention pond,’ the agency said. ‘Two people were aboard each aircraft.’
Four people died in the crash, local media reported, citing city officials.
An investigation is ongoing, the FAA said.
Meanwhile, no fewer than three people were killed and another three severely injured yesterday afternoon after shootings at a mall in the US state of Indiana, officials confirmed becoming the latest in a spate of gun violence in the country.
In a statement on Monday morning, Mark Myers, the mayor of Greenwood, Indiana, said; ‘We experienced a mass shooting this evening at the Greenwood Park Mall’.
‘We have three fatalities at this time and three others injured.’
Myers went on to add that the gunman had been shot dead by ‘an armed individual.’
In a post shared on their Facebook page which was sighted by Africa Today News, New York, the Greenwood police asked for witnesses to the shooting to contact the department with information.
The attack is the latest in a wave of gun violence plaguing the United States, where about 40,000 deaths a year are caused by firearms, according to the Gun Violence Archive.