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3 killed, at least 20 wounded in Chicago shootings

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Three people were killed and at least 20 others were wounded during the latest shooting incidents in Chicago Friday morning and Thursday night, officials said.

A 29-year-old woman, who was shot in the abdomen and chest Thursday, was pronounced dead at 4:18 am, Chicago Tribune reported.

Moreover, a 36-year-old man was shot at about 6:56 pm Thursday and was pronounced dead at 7:37 pm later that day, according to the medical examiner’s office.

On Friday at about 12:45 am, a 25-year-old man was also shot in the chest and was pronounced dead at 1:38 am.

During a Thursday night shooting, 13 people, including a 3-year-old child and two teens, were shot when a gang-related attack broke out in Chicago’s South Side Cornell Square Park. At least 10 others were shot in other shooting incidents in Chicago late Thursday and early Friday.

Meanwhile, on Friday morning in Kentucky, 3 people were shot to death in a robbery including the owner of a pawnshop, his wife and a customer, police said.

The shootings come just a few days after a gunman opened fire at the Washington Navy Yard killing 12 people and injuring several more before he was killed in a gun battle with police.

Gun violence in the US came under spotlight after a shooter killed 20 first-grade school children and six staff members using an assault rifle sold legally to his mother in a rampage at an elementary school in Newtown, Connecticut, on December 14, 2012.

Since the deadly shooting in Newtown, the US media have reported over 8,340 gun deaths in the US, according to an interactive project between slate.com and the anonymous creator of the Twitter feed @GunDeaths.

A new study conducted by two New York City cardiologists and published in the prestigious American Journal of Medicine has shown that the US has more guns and more gun-related deaths than any other developed country in the world.

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