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A man was arrested Saturday afternoon after shooting a synagogue in California, where he was wounded, authorities said.
The Poway Station of the San Diego County Sheriff's Department says on Twitter the shooting took place around 11:30 am, local time, in the Chabad of Poway synagogue, about 25 km north of San Diego. He said that there had been injuries but that no further details were immediately available.
Derryl Acosta, a spokesman for Palomar Medical Center, said that the trauma center at Escondido Hospital, California, was waiting for at least one patient and that one to four other patients could also be on the way.
Walter Vandivort, who lives in the synagogue area, said he heard gunshots while he was inside. He said that he did not know how much he had heard.
He described the neighborhood as a "peaceful middle class neighborhood" that had never seen this kind of violence for decades.
"I see orthodox Jews going to their synagogue and we have never had a problem," he said.
In October 2018, a man shouting anti-Semitic insults opened fire in a Pittsburgh synagogue. killing at least 11 people and injuring four police officers.
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