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New Orleans: 11 wounded in French Quarter shooting

By AFP
02 December 2019   |   3:52 pm
Eleven people have been wounded in a shooting in New Orleans' French Quarter, a popular tourist hub, US police say, adding that two of the victims were in a critical condition.

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