Monday, 6 August 2012

Shooting at Sikh Temple Leaves Seven Dead

 
Two weeks after the horrific shooting in Aurora, Colorado claimed 12 lives, another gunman opened fire yesterday inside a Sikh temple in Oak Creek, Wisconsin.
At least seven people, including the perpetrator, were found dead at the scene, with Police Chief Bradley Wentlandt telling reporters that a wounded officer returned shots at the unnamed culprit and took his life, ending the massacre.
Four bodies were found inside the temple and three outside of it, including the gunman.
Oak Creek
Darshan Dhaliwal, one of the temple's leaders, said the final tally is unknown. As as the motivations of the shooter. "Our dear ones and near ones are injured and hurt, and we are trying to find out what happened," Dhaliwal told WTMJ.
The Sikh religion originated in northern India in the early 1500s and is comprised of approximately 25 million people around the world, 700,000 of whom reside in the United States. It's unknown, of course, if the killer was specifically targeting members of the religion.

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