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'Horrific' shooting rampage inside US cinema

A masked gunman has shot dead at least 12 people and wounded 50 others at a showing of new Batman movie "The Dark Knight Rises" in the US state of Colorado.

A masked gunman has shot dead at least 12 people and wounded 50 others at a showing of new Batman movie “The Dark Knight Rises” in the US state of Colorado.

Police in the Denver suburb of Aurora said on Friday they had arrested a 24-year-old local man in a car park nearby in possession of a rifle, handgun and a knife.

Al Jazeera's Charles Stratford reports


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