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America has been rocked by another mass shooting incident, this time in Chicago.
The Chicago Tribune reports that up to 13 people have been shot at a basketball court, including a three-year-old child in Back of the Yards.
Back of the Yards is an industrial and residential neighborhood on Chicago's South Side.
It is still considered to be a working-class area, though now with a strong Mexican-American ethnic base, and suffers from a relatively high crime rate.
A total of 10 ambulances responded to the scene near Cornell Square Park around 10:15 p.m. local time and transported 11 of the victims to various hospitals, fire officials said.
Five victims were in serious condition and four others were in critical condition, according to fire officials.
A police dispatcher told AFP: "Basically, there have been no fatalities reported and there is no one in custody at this time."
TheChicago Sun Timesquoted 22-year-old local resident Julian Harris as saying that "dreadlocked gunmen in a gray sedan" fired at him at the corner of Wood and 51st street.
"They've been coming round here looking for people to shoot every night - just gang-banging stuff. It's what they do," the paper quoted Harris saying.
Another witness told the paper that he heard "at least 20 shots" and police arrived on the scene "real quick".
TheChicago Tribunereported that a total of eighteen people, including the 13 in the Cornell Park incident, were shot in the space of four hours in Chicago on Thursday night.
Despite this shocking figure, there has only been one fatality so far, that of a 36-year-old man who was shot near 77th Street and Sangamon Avenue
