See Previews Shooting, Knife Killings Happened Today

Several incidents of knife and shootings killings happened today in the world.  See informs its reader all these incidents.

1. Mass shooting leaves 5 killed and 21 injured in Taxes: 

At least five people were killed and 21 21 others injured by a gunman who opened fire in a series of shootings near Odessa in western Texas.

The shooting took place between the West Texas cities of Midland and Odessa that started with a traffic stop and ended when he was killed by officers, authorities said.

The Police killed the suspect who hijacked a postal van and opened fire on police officers, motorists and shoppers on a busy Labor Day holiday weekend before being shot dead outside a multiplex cinema complex in Odessa, police said, according to Ruters.

Midland Police has shot the suspect and killed him at a cinema complex.

The motive of the gunman, who was white and in his mid-30s, was unclear.

Police said there were a total of 25 shooting victims, including police officers from three different departments.

Authorities originally thought there were two shooters driving two vehicles, but Odessa Police Chief Michael Gerke told a news conference on Saturday evening that he believed there was only one.

2. Robert F. Kennedy assassin stabbed in prison

The man who killed John F. Kennedy's younger brother Bobby stab wounded," according to reports.

The 75-year-old Palestinian is serving life for assassinating the late New York senator in 1968.

Sirhan Sirhan, the man convicted of the 1968 assassination of Senator Robert F. Kennedy, was stabbed in prison on Friday, according to several US media reports.

California state authorities confirmed that a stabbing did occur in a San Diego prison, but did not identify the victim. The Associated Press later cited a government source, speaking on condition of anonymity, as saying it was Sirhan. Entertainment news outlet TMZ first broke the news.

"Officers responded quickly, and found an inmate with stab wound injuries," said a statement from the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation. "He was transported to an outside hospital for medical care, and is currently in stable condition," according to DW news.

3. Knife Attack killed 1 and injured 9 in France

The attack left a person killed and at least nine others wounded on Saturday in the city of Villeurbanne near Lyon in central France after a suspected knife attack, a police source told Reuters

A man wielding a skewer and knife went on the rampage in the French city of Lyon on Saturday, leaving a 19-year-old man dead and at least eight others injured, including three critically.

A police source said the alleged perpetrator was an Afghan asylum-seeker, unknown previously to both the police and the intelligence services.

An eye-witness in Villeurbanne, a suburb of Lyon, described the attack as frenzied.

“A 57-year old man existed. He started striking out with a knife in all directions,” said a young girl.

“He managed to hit, to cut open one person’s stomach,” she said.

“He stabbed a guy in the head, he cut the ear of a lady and the lady was dying at the bus stop and no-one came to help,” she added, sobbing.

She eventually managed to get the woman on a bus, which closed its doors and drove away from the scene.

“There blood spread everywhere,”she added.

Of the eight people wounded in the attack, three were in a critical condition, said the prosecutor’s office. Paramedics treated another 20 people at the scene for shock.

‘Deadly madness’

The mayor of Lyon Gerard Collomb, a former interior minister, visited the site of the attack but he revealed in comments to journalists they would not depend on what had provoked it. The man who carried out the attack had acted quite suddenly, he said.

The mayor of Villeurbanne, Jean-Paul Bret, paid tribute to people at the scene and security staff at the nearby metro station who overpowered the suspect as he tried to make his escape.

Police arrested the suspected attacker and were holding him in custody on suspicion of murder and attempted murder, the Lyon prosecutor’s office told AFP.

The reasons for the attack were still not clear. The national anti-terrorism prosecutor’s office got the news but had not taken charge of the case at this stage.

Reacting to the attack, Marine Le Pen, leader of the far-right National Rally, posted a tweet saying “the naivety and laxity of our migration policy seriously threatens the safety of the French people”.

A group representing the region’s mosques also issued a statement roundly condemning the killing. It condemned the “deadly madness that inhabits those who try to sow hatred and violence”.

Last May, a parcel bomb in front of a baker’s shop in central Lyon slightly injured 14 people.

The perpetrator, a young radicalised Algerian pledged allegiance to the Islamic State group, according to his confession. The police arrested him three days later.

Lyon, France’s third city, had until then remained untouched by the wave of jihadist attacks. They killed 251 people in France since 2015.