Man killed in US shopping centre shooting

Shots erupted in a packed Seattle-area shopping mall on Saturday after an apparent argument between a gunman and two other young men, killing one of the men, creating panic among shoppers and sending police on a store-to-store search for the gunman, authorities said.

The Southcentre Mall in Tukwila was locked down for six hours as police tried in vain to find the gunman. Officer Mike Murphy, a police spokesman, said there were thousands of shoppers at the mall when the shooting took place just before 3:45pm He said the gunfire may have been gang-related.