Shooting reported after Lunar New Year event near LA

A police vehicle near the scene where a shooting took place in Monterey Park, California (Jae C Hong/AP)

Dozens of police officers are responding to reports of a shooting that occurred after a large Lunar New Year celebration had ended in a community east of Los Angeles.

No official information about the incident is yet available, but reports said it occurred in Monterey Park, a city of about 60,000 people with a large Asian population that is about 10 miles from LA city centre, on Saturday at about 10pm local time (6am on Sunday in the UK).