Six killed in US factory shooting

A worker at a plastics plant in Kentucky shot and killed five people inside the factory on Wednesday and wounded a sixth before…

A worker at a plastics plant in Kentucky shot and killed five people inside the factory on Wednesday and wounded a sixth before killing himself, police said.

Local media reports said the violence was triggered by a dispute the 25-year-old man had with a supervisor, who was among the dead.

Police in Henderson, Kentucky, said the man who did the shooting entered the Atlantis Plastics plant in Henderson and began firing a handgun.

The shooter, who died of a self-inflicted wound, and one of his victims were pronounced dead inside the plant. Four others were pronounced dead after being taken to hospitals, and a sixth victim is in stable condition at a hospital.

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One local media report said most of the victims appeared to have been shot at random and were scattered around the plant.

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