At least 20 people were killed in a shootout in Texas and there are three inmates

For his part, the Mayor of El Paso, Dee Margo, informed the CNN "several deaths" and specified that there were "three suspects in detention".

"Today, the community of El Paso has been beaten by an act of hate and insane violence," Texas Governor Greg Abbott said in a statement.

The White House declared the President Donald Trump He was informed of the shooting in El Paso and continued to monitor the situation.

Afternoon (17:00 GMT), the police of El Paso tweeted: "Shooting alert, stay away from the Cielo Vista shopping mall, the situation is still developing."

An hour later he repeated that the event was still "developing". "We received a lot of information on the presence of several shooters."

So shoot at one of the shooters against people:

A woman shopping at the mall's Walmart store told Fox News she heard "like a firework" when she was looking for a place to park. "I went to the exit," he says.

"I saw a man dressed in a black t-shirt and camouflage pants that wore what looked like a rifle, was aimed at people and shot them directly." J & # 39; I saw three or four people falling to the ground, "he said.

US television showed the security forces stationed in the area.

The delegation of the Federal Agency for the Control of Weapons, Explosives, Tobacco and Alcohol (ATF) in Dallas announced that she was moving to the site to help police in El Paso.

In the United States, shootings are commonplace. On Tuesday, two people died and a police officer was wounded at another Walmart store in Mississippi.

On Sunday, three people, including a six-year-old boy, were shot dead by a 19-year-old man who opened fire at a food festival in Gilroy, California, south of San Francisco.

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They kidnapped, raped and beheaded a 3-year-old girl

Two supermarket employees were killed after a shootout in Mississippi