US-Mexico Border City Shooting: 2 Killed, 5 Injured

Los Angeles: At least two persons were killed while five others sustained grevious injuries in a shooting in Yuma, a US-Mexico border city in Arizona.

Two male victims, aged 19 and 20 respectively, were pronounced dead in a local hospital shortly after being sent there, it added as quoted by Xinhua news agency report.

A third victim, a 16-year-old male, was sent to the hospital and later flown to Phoenix, the capital of the southwestern US state, with life-threatening injuries, it said.

The other victims, aged 15, 19, 18, and 16, had non-life-threatening injuries.

As per reports, the shots were fired in a neighbourhood at about 10:54 p.m. local time Saturday (0554 GMT Sunday) and found several people with gunshot wounds, the Yuma Police Department said in a press statement on Sunday.