USA: Shots fired at a post office in Memphis, with three dead

A U.S. Postal Service employee opened fire at his workplace on Tuesday Memphis, killing two of his colleagues before turning his shotgun on himself, the post office said. USA and local authorities.

The postal service is “investigating the shootings recorded earlier” at a branch in the city Memphis, in the state Tennessee, she said in a press release she published. “Three employees are dead. “There is no longer an active threat,” he said.

The perpetrator was among the three employees who were killed and according to the first data of the investigation, he committed suicide, said from her side the Lisa-Ann Calp, his representative Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) in the Memphis, during a press conference. The spokeswoman noted that the investigation is still ongoing.

The U.S. Post reports that the administration and staff have been “shocked by this tragedy.”

Violent incidents in the workplace are a recurring scourge on American society. In the years from 1970 to 1990, officials or former employees murdered some forty people in American post offices. These episodes are due to the slang expression “going postal” (which can be attributed to “you left by mail”), which is described in USA outbursts of uncontrollable rage in the workplace, which not infrequently prove fatal.

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