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[Published: Saturday February 16 2019]

 Man shoots five dead at Illinois firm
ILLINOIS, United States 16 Feb (ANA) - A man who was being fired from his job shot dead five people and injured several others at his workplace in the US state of Illinois, police say.
The gunman was also killed during an exchange of fire with police officers. Five officers were shot and wounded.
The shooting took place at a manufacturing company in Aurora, a suburb about 40 miles west of Chicago.
Police named the gunman as Gary Martin, 45, who had worked at the Henry Pratt company for 15 years.
Aurora police chief Kristen Ziman said late on Friday they had information that indicates "he was being terminated today".
Officers declined to speculate on a motive, but the Chicago Sun-Times newspaper reports that his family say he was "stressed out" by being made redundant by the company, which makes valves for large water pipes.
Police received reports of an "active shooter" in an industrial park in Aurora at about 13:24 local time (19:24 GMT), Ms Ziman said at a press conference.
They were "fired upon immediately" when they arrived at the scene, she said.
The police chief added that a rescue task force was quickly deployed to the industrial park, accompanied by the emergency services, including the fire department and paramedics.
Chris Southwood of the Illinois Fraternal Order of Police described the Aurora officers who attended and were shot as "courageous".
"[These] officers and their colleagues did not hesitate to literally put their lives on the line today to stop further bloodshed," Mr Southwood said in a statement.
Of the five officers wounded, two were airlifted to nearby trauma centres.
The names of the five people who were killed have not yet been released.(ANA)
FA/ANA/16 February 2019-------
 


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