Louisiana shooting: Two dead in Lafayette cinema attack
A gunman has opened fire at a cinema in the US state of Louisiana, killing two people and injuring several others before shooting himself, officials say. Police said the attacker was a 58-year-old white male armed with a handgun but did not release any further details, according to bbc.com.
Witnesses said the man opened fire about 20 minutes into a screening of a film at the Grand Theatre in Lafayette.
Hours earlier, US President Barack Obama told the BBC that gun law reform had been his "greatest frustration".
Police chief Jim Craft said officers responded to reports of a shooting at about 19:30 local time (01:30 GMT). Mr Craft said seven other people were taken to a local hospital with injuries ranging from critical to non-life threatening.
The gunman's identity is known to police, Mr Craft added, but is not being released at this time. The police chief said that the gunman did have a criminal history but that it was "pretty old".