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7 killed, 3 critically hurt in shooting at US gurudwara
Monday August 06, 2012 08:43:15 AM,
IANS
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Washington: A gunman
killed six people and left three others critically wounded in an
attack on worshippers at a Sikh gurudwara (temple) in a Wisconsin
suburb Sunday before being shot by a police officer.
The officer, who was sent to the temple in the Milwaukee suburb of
Oak Creek, Wisconsin, after a 911 call about 10.25 a.m., was
wounded but "returned fire, and that shooter was put down",
Bradley Wentlandt, the police chief in nearby Greenfield, told
reporters.
Investigators, who picked through the building afterward, found
four bodies inside the temple and two other victims outside, plus
the gunman, Wentlandt was quoted as saying by CNN.
Though early reports had suggested there may have been more than
one attacker, he said officers had not identified any other
gunmen.
The wounded officer, a 20-year veteran, was in surgery Sunday
afternoon after being shot multiple times, but was expected to
survive, Wentlandt said.
Carolyn Bellin, a spokeswoman for Milwaukee's Froedtert Hospital,
said one of three men brought there from the incident was in
surgery early Sunday morning, while another was in the surgical
intensive care unit.
The third was being evaluated in the emergency room. All three
were in critical condition.
"I just want to say this temple was built a number of years ago
and there have never been any problems with this temple," Oak
Creek Alderman Dan Jakubczyk said. "They've been a plus to this
city and to my district."
As reports of the firing came in, the Indian Embassy got in touch
with the National Security Council in Washington and deputed an
official to visit the site to ascertain the situation on-the-spot.
The Embassy is seized of the situation and has been in touch with
the NSC, it said in a statement. "Our Consulate General in Chicago
too has been in close touch with the local authorities to monitor
the situation."
Members of the police SWAT team have begun removing the injured
from the temple's prayer room, the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel
reported.
Among those shot was Satwant Kaleka, president of the temple,
Wentlandt told the Journal-Sentinel.
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