A shooting occurred in a Mormon church in the US — there are dead and injured, a fire broke out

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Svitlana Kravchenko
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A gunman opened fire at a Mormon church in the US state of Michigan, killing and injuring worshippers.

Reuters writes about this.

The incident occurred on September 28 in the city of Grand Blanc. A gunman first drove a car into the door of a Mormon church and then opened fire with an assault rifle. The church building caught fire.

Police identified the attacker as 40-year-old former US Marine Thomas Jacob Sanford of the nearby town of Burton. He died in a shootout with police.

In total, at least 4 people were killed in the shooting, and 8 more were injured.

Hundreds of people were in the church at the time of the attack. Some are still missing.

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