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US: At least 13 dead in small NY town gun rampage


04 Apr 2009 5:16 AM

Police have led two people in handcuffs from a New York state civic center .. where at least 13 people have been killed by gun shots during a rampage .. and media reports say police are looking for a third person.

About 40 hostages have been held hostage at the immigration centre in the upstate New York town of Binghamton .. 200 kilometres from New York.

A local radio news director says a dozen or more may have died in the last two hours.

Police armed with automatic rifles surrounded the building as officers carried out several stretchers.

Sky news quotes officials as saying it appears no the rampage was a coordinated attack.