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A mass shooting near the Space Needle landmark in Seattle killed three people on Sunday and wounded at least four others, including a toddler, according to the police. Seattle Police said one suspect has been arrested and they are searching for another following the incident at a food festival in a popular tourist district of the northwestern US city. Assistant Police Chief Tyrone Davis said shots were heard around 6pm (6am PKT) and “there were two people who we believe were shooting at each other”. Two weapons were recovered. There is “no outstanding threat to the community,” he said. Seattle Police said three people had died. Police said on X earlier Sunday there were “multiple shooting victims” after shots were fired at the Seattle Centre. Washington Governor Bob Ferguson said State Patrol SWAT officers had been deployed to assist local police. “My prayers are with the families of the victims, and the responders as they work to keep people safe,” he said on X. Mayor Katie Wilson said the shooting was “an a...

A mass shooting near the Space Needle landmark in Seattle killed two people on Sunday and wounded at least four others, including a child, according to US media and a local hospital. Seattle Mayor Katie Wilson said one suspect has been taken into custody following the incident in a popular tourist district in the northwestern US city. Wilson had initially said two were in custody. Fire department officials confirmed that two people died, according to NBC News and CNN. Seattle police said there were “multiple shooting victims” near the Space Needle observation tower. “Shots fired at the Seattle Centre,” police said in an X post. Wilson said in a statement that she wanted to “thank the Seattle police officers who responded to the scene and took a suspect into custody”. Four patients were being treated at the trauma centre facility at Harborview Medical Centre, according to spokesperson Susan Gregg: a child, a woman of unknown age who was in surgery, a 23-year-old man and a 39-year-old woman. “There was informat...