Customers in a grocery store on Mount Prospect, Illinois, USA. File photoWASHINGTON, June 4 Nine people, including one teenager, were injured in a shooting that occurred on Saturday night in a shopping center in the US city of Phoenix (Arizona), reports the local branch of the TV channel CBS, citing law enforcement officers. The exact circumstances of the incident have not yet been established. Police believe that the cause of the shooting was a quarrel in a large company of young people who spent time together in a shopping center. The victims were between 17 and 24 years old. Three of them, as noted, were seriously injured. After the arrival of law enforcement officers, the area of the incident was cordoned off. The police are conducting a large-scale investigation, the TV channel indicates. So far, no one has been detained in this case. This week, US President Joe Biden, during an address to fellow citizens, said that the second amendment to the constitution, which guarantees the right to own firearms, «is not an absolute,» and it is necessary to tighten control over it. In this regard, the head of state called for a ban on the circulation of assault weapons and high-capacity magazines in the country, as well as «removing barriers» that protect US arms manufacturers from filing lawsuits against them.
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