Six people, including two children, were killed and three other children critically wounded in a shooting on Monday in Memphis, Tennessee, authorities said.
Police said all the children were under the age of 12.
The wounded children -- a 7-year-old boy, a 10-month-old girl and a 4-year-old whose gender wasn't immediately known -- were transported to Le Bonheur Children's Medical Center.
They were in the emergency room being treated for gunshot wounds, said hospital spokeswoman Jennilyn Utkov.
The cause of death was still under investigation but police were treating the case as a multiple homicide. The identities of the victims weren't released.
"We just don't know the motive or cause of death, but we do have four adults and two children (dead)," Memphis police Lt. Jerry Guin told The Commercial Appeal newspaper.
The newspaper reported that the shooting appeared to be the city's deadliest mass killing since 1973, when 28-year-old David Sanders randomly shot and killed five people before being shot dead by police.
Source: Xinhua
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