Saudi Air Force officer kills three in mass shooting at US Naval base in Pensacola, Florida
ASaudi Arabian Air Force officer carried out a mass shooting at a US Naval base in Florida, defence officials said.
The shooter, who was undergoing aviation training at the base, killed three people, and injured at least half a dozen more, before being shot dead by police.
FBI agents were investigating if the attack was terrorism-related.
The shooting happened at the Naval Air Station Pensacola, which is home to the Blue Angels, the US Navy's aerobatic flight demonstration squadron.
Gunfire erupted in a two-floor building which houses training classrooms just before 7am.
Military members from around the world attend the base for training.
A total of 16,000 military personnel and 7,400 civilians work at the base.
The shooting happened in two-floor building housing classrooms, and the gunfire started just before 7am.
Local sheriff David Morgan said: "Walking through the crime scene was like being on the set of a movie."
Two sheriff's deputies were injured, one shot in the arm, the other in the knee, but both were expected to survive.
Donald Trump was briefed on the shooting and monitoring the situation, a White House spokesman said.
Grover Robinson, mayor of Pensacola, said it was a "tragic day". He added: "We are a military town."
The Florida governor, Ron DeSantis, flew to the scene.
Captain Timothy Kinsella Jr., the base's commanding officer said the base was closed until further notice.
The shooting was the second to take place at a US naval base this week.
On Wednesday, a sailor shot dead two civilians at the Pearl Harbor base in Hawaii, before taking his own life.
The gunman, petty officer Gabriel Romero, 22, had been unhappy with his commanders, and had been undergoing counseling, a US military official said.
He used his service rifle to carry out the attack before turning his service pistol on himself.
Romero was part of the crew of the submarine USS Columbia, which was undergoing maintenance at Pearl Harbor.
The shooting happened days before a ceremony on Saturday to remember those lost in the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor 78 years ago.
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