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In USA, At least eight people were killed when a transit employee opened fire at a light rail yard in San Jose, California, on Wednesday morning, the county sheriff's office said. Santa Clara County Sheriff's Deputy Russell Davis said at a news conference the gunman was also dead. The gunman was a Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority (VTA) employee, he said. Davis said he could not say how the gunman died or whether police officers fired their weapons at the scene.The shooting took place just before 7 am Pacific Time (1400 GMT) at a light rail yard run by the VTA near the city's main airport. A bomb squad was searching the yard after "at least one" explosive device was found, Davis said.
Glenn Hendricks, the chairman of the VTA board, said at the news conference that the shooting took place in a part of the yard where workers do maintenance on vehicles, and was not in the yard's operations and control center. "We are in a very dark moment," San Jose Mayor Sam Liccardo said at the news conference. "We will do everything possible to ensure this never happens again in our city." The Federal Bureau of Investigation said it had agents assisting at the crime scene. The shooter was identified by sources as Samuel Cassidy, 57, a maintenance worker at the VTA.
San Jose, a city with about 1 million residents, lies at the heart of Silicon Valley, a global center of technological innovation and home of some of America's biggest tech companies. Mass shootings are common in the United States, which has one of the highest rates of gun ownership in the world.
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