NYPD seeking gunmen after 10 people wounded outside Queens venue
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Police comb the scene after multiple gunmen opened fire at people waiting to enter the Amazura nightclub in New York on Jan 2.
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The New York Police Department is seeking information in relation to a shooting outside the Amazura nightclub in Jamaica, Queens that wounded 10 people on New Year’s day in the evening.
About three or four men opened fire more than 30 times on a group standing outside the event space before fleeing on foot and then into a light-colored sedan, Chief of Patrol Philip Rivera said at a press conference on Jan 2. The victims – six of them female and four male – will recover, he said.
Mr Rivera said the authorities are still ascertaining a motive, but made clear it was not terrorism. He said there were about 90 people inside the event space in the upstairs, which was being used for a private event. BLOOMBERG
