Two killed in US restaurant shooting

Washington April 15 (IANS) Two men were killed in a shooting at a restaurant inside a mall in US Arizona state a sheriff s spokesman told the media.

An altercation at the Firebirds restaurant inside the La Encantada mall in north Tucson led to a shooting at about 7.30 p.m. on Friday CNN quoted the spokesman as saying.

The shooting was confined to the restaurant.

Several people were in the restaurant at the time but only a woman was injured with a gunshot to the leg. She is being treated at a local hospital.

All three individuals were known to each other but the specifics of the relationship are unknown the spokesman said.

Authorities said it was unclear what the altercation was about and how it escalated into a shooting.

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