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French.china.org.cn | Updated on 29-06-2022
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At least ten mass shootings took place in the United States between Friday and Sunday evening, making it the third weekend in a row in which American law enforcement had to respond to multiple incidents, each of which caused four or more victims, ABC News reported Monday.
The weekend shootings left at least 10 dead and 42 injured in 10 cities across the country, ABC News reported, citing figures from the Gun Violence Archive, a monitoring site that tracks shootings across the country.
This black series of deadly incidents began during the Memorial Day holidays, during which at least 17 shootings were recorded in the United States, with a total of 13 dead and 79 injured in several cities such as Philadelphia, Chicago, Houston, Phoenix, Memphis and Chattanooga, Tennessee, according to ABC News.
Since the May 14 alleged racially motivated attack that killed 10 black people in a supermarket in Buffalo, New York, and for which an 18-year-old white boy was charged with multiple murders, he there have been at least 68 mass shootings in the country, the same source added.
More shootings added to the carnage this weekend, claiming many victims in Los Angeles, Denver, New Orleans, Detroit, Louisville (Kentucky), Decatur and South Fulton (Georgia), Antioch (Tennessee) and Gary (Indiana). A shooting also took place for the third consecutive weekend in Chicago.
The weekend shootings came even as a bipartisan group of U.S. senators announced on Sunday that they had reached agreement on the broad outlines of a plan to curb what Senate Democratic Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, described it as “an epidemic of gun violence that has plagued our country and terrorized our children for far too long,” ABC News reported.
