- At least five people shot dead by police as they walked
across a New Orleans bridge yesterday were contractors working for the
US Defence department, according to a report by The Associated Press.
- A spokesman for the Army Corps of Engineers said the
victims were contractors on their way to repair a canal, the new agency
said, quoting a defence Department spokesman.
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- The contractors crossing the bridge to launch barges
into Lake Pontchartrain, in an operation to fix the 17th Street Canal,
according to the spokesman.
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- The shootings took place on the Danziger Bridge, across
a canal connecting Lake Pontchartrain to the Mississippi River.
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- Early on Sunday, Deputy Police Chief W.J. Riley of New
Orleans said police shot at eight people, killing five or six.
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- No other details were immediately available.
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