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Three shot dead in Detroit apartment

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A woman and two men have been found shot to death in their Detroit apartment in the US state of Michigan.

Police said on Friday that the shooting appeared to be drug related and the victims were in their 20s and 30s.

The incident is the latest in a series of shooting incidents in Detroit where the number of homicides reached 54.6 per 100,000 people, a 20-year high, in 2012.

Over the past week, several people, including a pregnant woman, in Detroit lost their lives in a series of killings.

On Wednesday, three people were killed and 6 others were injured after a gunman in body armor opened fire at a barbershop in Detroit.

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 more than 10,000 gun deaths in the country, according to an interactive project between slate.com and the anonymous creator of the Twitter feed @GunDeaths.

However, slate.com says the actual number of deaths as of November 8, is roughly 29,776, almost three times more than the number reported in the media.

According to the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence, an average of 32 Americans are murdered with guns every day and 140 are treated for a gun assault in an emergency room.

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