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1st LD Writethru: Four killed, one injured in S.Korean shooting rampage

Xinhua, February 27, 2015 Adjust font size:

Four people were killed and one was injured in a South Korean air-rifle shooting rampage in Hwaseong, Gyeonggy Province, Yonhap News Agency reported Friday.

Police received an official report at about 9:30 a.m. that one person shot at relatives with an air rifle in a single-family house in Hwaseong, southwest of capital Seoul.

When police officers arrived, a man and a woman, estimated to be a married couple, were found lie down on the floor along with an unidentified man and head of a police station.

Details of the accident are under investigation. Endite