US:10 dead in Buffalo supermarket in racist attack

In the United States, at least ten people were killed and several others injured at a grocery store in New York  state's Buffalo city on Saturday night after a gunman opened fire. According to reports, the assailant was wearing military-style clothing and body armour and opened fire with a rifle. The gunman was taken into custody by police. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is probing the shooting incident both as a hate crime and racially-motivated violent extremism. The suspect was questioned by investigators. Police said he shot 11 Black and two white victims before surrendering to authorities in a rampage he broadcast live on the streaming platform Twitch.

The suspected gunman in Saturday's attack on Tops Friendly Market was identified as Payton Gendron, of Conklin, New York, about 320 kilometers southeast of Buffalo. The massacre sent shockwaves through an unsettled nation gripped with racial tensions, gun violence and a spate of hate crimes. In the day prior to the shooting, Dallas police said they were investigating a series of shootings in Koreatown as hate crimes. The Buffalo attack came just one month after another mass shooting on a Brooklyn subway train wounded 10 people.