At least 3 killed after shooter opens fire at Maryland factory in US
India TodayA gunman opened fire at a manufacturing facility in northern Maryland on Thursday, killing at least three people and critically wounding another, a Maryland county sheriff said. The assailant, who was not immediately identified, was taken into custody after he was wounded in an exchange of gunfire with a Maryland state trooper, a Washington County Sheriff's spokeswoman said. The Baltimore office of the US Bureau of Alcohol, Firearms and Explosives said on Twitter it was sending agents to the scene in Smithsburg, in northern Maryland near the Pennsylvania state line. "We are actively monitoring the mass shooting in #Smithsburg right now, and our office is in contact with officials on the ground," US Representative David Trone of Maryland said on Twitter.