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6 killed in US mall shooting SALT LAKE CITY – A gunman entered a shopping mall and began randomly shooting on Monday night, hitting several people before he was killed, police said.

Reports said six people had died in the incident. “There have been multiple victims and there are some fatalities,” police Detective Robin Snyder said outside the Trolley Square Mall.”The suspect has been killed,” she said.Antique store owner Barrett Dodds, 29, said he saw a man in a trench coat exchanging gunfire with a police officer outside a card store.The gunman was backed into a children’s clothing store, he said.”I saw the cops go in the store.I saw the shooter go down,” said Dodds, who watched from the second floor.Barb McKeown, 60, of Washington, DC, was in another antique shop when two frantic women ran in and reported gunshots.”Then we heard shot after shot after shot – loud, loud, loud,” said McKeown, saying she heard about 20.She and three other people hid under a staircase until it was safe to leave..* Cops visit infanticide home SEOUL – French police investigating a triple infanticide case were yesterday to visit the Seoul house where the two of the babies’ bodies were found in a freezer, South Korean police said.The officers will also question a maid who worked at the house and the neighbours, a police spokesperson said.Investigating magistrate Marie-Dominique Boulard-Paolini is spending a week in South Korea while the three police officers accompanying her are staying for about two weeks, prosecutor Philippe Varin told AFP in France last week.French national Veronique Courjault, 38, has confessed to killing three babies she gave birth to between 1999 and 2003.She is now in jail in France under criminal investigation for murder, the first stage before formal charges are brought.* Suicide bomb rocks Baghdad BAGHDAD – A suicide bomber blew up the truck he was driving near a college in a mainly Shi’ite area in Baghdad on Tuesday, killing at least 15 people and wounding 27, police and hospital officials said.The attack occurred about 9:50 a.m.at the College of Economic Sciences as students were arriving for class at the campus in the Iskan neighbourhood in western Baghdad, next to warehouses storing food for the Trade Ministry.Nampa-AP-AFP”There have been multiple victims and there are some fatalities,” police Detective Robin Snyder said outside the Trolley Square Mall.”The suspect has been killed,” she said.Antique store owner Barrett Dodds, 29, said he saw a man in a trench coat exchanging gunfire with a police officer outside a card store.The gunman was backed into a children’s clothing store, he said.”I saw the cops go in the store.I saw the shooter go down,” said Dodds, who watched from the second floor.Barb McKeown, 60, of Washington, DC, was in another antique shop when two frantic women ran in and reported gunshots.”Then we heard shot after shot after shot – loud, loud, loud,” said McKeown, saying she heard about 20.She and three other people hid under a staircase until it was safe to leave.. * Cops visit infanticide home SEOUL – French police investigating a triple infanticide case were yesterday to visit the Seoul house where the two of the babies’ bodies were found in a freezer, South Korean police said.The officers will also question a maid who worked at the house and the neighbours, a police spokesperson said.Investigating magistrate Marie-Dominique Boulard-Paolini is spending a week in South Korea while the three police officers accompanying her are staying for about two weeks, prosecutor Philippe Varin told AFP in France last week.French national Veronique Courjault, 38, has confessed to killing three babies she gave birth to between 1999 and 2003.She is now in jail in France under criminal investigation for murder, the first stage before formal charges are brought. * Suicide bomb rocks Baghdad BAGHDAD – A suicide bomber blew up the truck he was driving near a college in a mainly Shi’ite area in Baghdad on Tuesday, killing at least 15 people and wounding 27, police and hospital officials said.The attack occurred about 9:50 a.m.at the College of Economic Sciences as students were arriving for class at the campus in the Iskan neighbourhood in western Baghdad, next to warehouses storing food for the Trade Ministry. Nampa-AP-AFP