Five dead 'were army workers
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At least five people shot dead by police as they walked across a New
Orleans bridge yesterday were contractors working for the US Defence
department, according to a report by The Associated Press.
A spokesman for the Army Corps of Engineers said the victims were
contractors on their way to repair a canal, the new agency said,
quoting a defence Department spokesman.
The contractors crossing the bridge to launch barges into Lake
Pontchartrain, in an operation to fix the 17th Street Canal, according
to the spokesman.
The shootings took place on the Danziger Bridge, across a canal
connecting Lake Pontchartrain to the Mississippi River.
Early on Sunday, Deputy Police Chief W.J. Riley of New Orleans said
police shot at eight people, killing five or six.
No other details were immediately available.
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