At Least 10 Injured in New Orleans Shooting

At least 16 people have been hospitalized after a mass shooting in New Orleans, Louisiana.

Shooting occurred around 7 pm local time (0100 GMT on Monday) in Bunny Friend Park in the city’s Upper Ninth Ward.

The injured were rushed to hospital for medical treatment.

The police is accepting that the witnesses will cooperate with them to identify the culprits so that justice can be brought to the people who are suffering because of this incident. Harrison has confirmed to the dailies “I can’t speak to the condition” of all the victims, but “no one has died at this time”.

Landrieu said the shooting is not something that can be tolerated in the city. For the making of a video almost 500 people were said to have collected at the. To their astonishment two men started to shoot at random.

Ambulances took 10 victims to area hospitals, and police later learned that another six victims had been taken to the hospital in private vehicles.

Lots of people were lying on the sidewalk after the shooting, they also told that.

New Orleans Mayor Mitch Landrieu came to the scene of the shooting, the Times-Picayune said.

UPDATE 3: Police say the event was unplanned and non permitted.

The number of murders in New Orleans stood at 150 previous year, the lowest since 1971.