Saudi airman in U.S. for training suspected in deadly shooting at Florida naval base


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  • Friday, 06 Dec 2019

The main gate at Naval Air Station Pensacola is seen on Navy Boulevard in Pensacola, Florida, U.S. March 16, 2016. U.S. Navy/Patrick Nichols/Handout via REUTERS.

PENSACOLA, Fla. (Reuters) - A Saudi Air Force second lieutenant killed four people and wounded eight others on Friday in an unexplained shooting rampage at a U.S. Navy base in Florida where he was training, U.S. officials told Reuters.

Sheriff's deputies responding to the early-morning incident shot and killed the gunman, who was armed with a handgun at the U.S. Naval Station in Pensacola, Navy and local law enforcement officials said.

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