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Police officer 'among injured' in Wisconsin shooting
Police have confirmed that a shooting has taken place at a Sikh temple in Oak Creek in the US state of Wisconsin.
An officer had been shot multiple times but was expected to survive, said Greenfield Police Chief Bradley Wentland. There are reports of other casualties but no confirmed numbers.
Chief Wentland said one suspect had been shot, but more gunmen might still be on the loose inside the temple.
"This is an ongoing and very fluid situation," he said.
Chief Wentland said that an "unintelligible" call had been made to the 911 emergency services number at about 10:25 local time (15:25 GMT).
He said a police officer had been sent to the scene and had "engaged an active shooter", during which he had been shot multiple times.
But he said he had "no victim or suspect count".
Police have corralled journalists outside the temple and urged them not to broadcast aerial footage that could compromise the operation.
Oak Creek is a town of about 30,000 people in the south-east corner of the state.
Parminder Kaleka, who was waiting outside the temple, told the Milwaukee-Wisconsin Journal Sentinel that she had phoned her brother-in-law - who she said was the priest of the temple - who was inside "at that time [the] shooting happened
"He told me 25 or more people got shot, at that time they don't even know if they are dead or alive, so a lot of people got injured."
She said she had heard her brother-in-law had also been shot, and said desperate families were gathered outside the temple waiting for news.
"This is a big tragedy for our church," she said, saying everyone had always assumed it would be a place of safety.
Other relatives of people inside the temple at the time of the shooting said they had heard reports of children being held hostage inside the basement, but there has been no confirmation of this
Police officer 'among injured' in Wisconsin shooting
Police have confirmed that a shooting has taken place at a Sikh temple in Oak Creek in the US state of Wisconsin.
An officer had been shot multiple times but was expected to survive, said Greenfield Police Chief Bradley Wentland. There are reports of other casualties but no confirmed numbers.
Chief Wentland said one suspect had been shot, but more gunmen might still be on the loose inside the temple.
"This is an ongoing and very fluid situation," he said.
Chief Wentland said that an "unintelligible" call had been made to the 911 emergency services number at about 10:25 local time (15:25 GMT).
He said a police officer had been sent to the scene and had "engaged an active shooter", during which he had been shot multiple times.
But he said he had "no victim or suspect count".
Police have corralled journalists outside the temple and urged them not to broadcast aerial footage that could compromise the operation.
Oak Creek is a town of about 30,000 people in the south-east corner of the state.
Parminder Kaleka, who was waiting outside the temple, told the Milwaukee-Wisconsin Journal Sentinel that she had phoned her brother-in-law - who she said was the priest of the temple - who was inside "at that time [the] shooting happened
"He told me 25 or more people got shot, at that time they don't even know if they are dead or alive, so a lot of people got injured."
She said she had heard her brother-in-law had also been shot, and said desperate families were gathered outside the temple waiting for news.
"This is a big tragedy for our church," she said, saying everyone had always assumed it would be a place of safety.
Other relatives of people inside the temple at the time of the shooting said they had heard reports of children being held hostage inside the basement, but there has been no confirmation of this
