Two dead, five injured including two children, in US shooting

A drive-by shooting in New Orleans has left a man and an 18-year-old woman dead and five others wounded, three of them children.

A woman and two children, aged two and four, were in critical condition and a 13-year-old girl and a 37-year-old woman were in stable condition after the shooting in the Lower 9th Ward, police spokesman Frank Robertson said.