NEW ORLEANS (AP) - Police shot and killed at least five people Sunday after gunmen opened fire on a group of contractors traveling across a bridge on their way to make repairs, authorities said.
Deputy Police Chief W.J. Riley said police shot at eight people carrying guns, killing five or six.
Fourteen contractors were traveling across the Danziger Bridge under police escort when they came under fire, said John Hall, a spokesman for the Army Corps of Engineers.
They were on their way to launch barges into Lake Pontchartrain to help plug the breech in the 17th Street Canal, Hall said.
None of the contractors was killed, Hall said.
The bridge spans a canal connecting Lake Pontchartrain and the Mississippi River.
No other details were immediately available.
Talk about incompetence - why are "no other details available"?; EVERY news network has every last one of their talking heads poking around New Orleans, and not a one of them has been able to verify the Associated Press reports on this incident. Where are they all? Doing "Specials" or Special-Reports on how late the government was in sending help while real news was happening right under their noses.
What's wrong guys? Not any black's among the contractors?
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