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We begin our coverage in New York, where a mass shooting erupted on a crowded subway train in Brooklyn during the morning rush hour on Tuesday.
While two dozen were shot and wounded, the police are actively searching for the 62-year-old gunman whom the police suspect had rented a van before the tragedy.
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Chaos ensued right after the shooting occurred during Tuesday's morning rush hour. Panicked passengers were seen scrambling to safety, with the injured sitting on the platform as they wept.
{Soundbite} Witness: I saw maybe a 16-year-old kid who was sitting on the steps coming out of the train station. And he had a bullet in his knee.
{Soundbite} Witness: That's a sort of terror that I haven't seen before since 9/11.
The Manhattan-bound train was en route to the 36th Street station when the gunman donned an apparent gas mask and detonated smoke grenades, sending smoke billowing through the station.
{Soundbite} KERCHANT SEWELL, New York City Police Commissioner: He then opened fire, striking multiple people on the subway and in the platform.
Local media reports say at least 33 shots were fired off with a 9-millimetre handgun.
At least 29 were injured, with five in critical condition, but all expected to survive. And more than a dozen were treated for smoke inhalation and other injuries sustained.
The perpetrator, identified as Black 62-year-old Frank James, were reported to have posted numerous videos in which he denounced America as a place awash with violence and sometimes criticised the city's new mayor, who's now in self-isolation.
While authorities aren't certain whether he was connected to the brazen attack, the police believe he had rented a U-Haul van in Philadelphia prior to the shooting.
The gunman fled amid the chaos, leaving behind the gun as well as a collection of weapons which he might have planned to use.
A flat-out effort is now underway to chase down the suspect.
The train route involved snakes through working-class neighbourhoods. Sunset Park where the attack erupted is a diverse neighbourhood endowed with Asian and Hispanic residents.
The attack came as New York struggles to contend with a spike in crimes.
New York's Governor emerged from a cauldron of wrath, saying this all-the-more pressing issue cannot be put on the back burner anymore.
{Soundbite} KATHY HOCHUL, New York Governor: It has to end and it ends now. And we are sick and tired of reading headlines about crime, whether there're mass shootings or the loss of a teenage girl or a 13-year-old. It has to stop.
She also called on residents to be extra vigilant as the police feverishly hunts for the attacker.
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