At least eight shot, including four children, in New York’s Coney Island

NYPD officers work at the scene after eight people, including four children, were shot in a mass shooting in Coney Island, New York, on Saturday. Photograph: Kyle Mazza/Anadolu via Getty Images

At ⁠least eight people, including four children, were shot and wounded on Saturday during the Fourth of July holiday in New York City’s Coney Island section, according to police.

The shooting happened ​at about 10.35pm on the Brooklyn neighborhood’s West 30th Street – not far from a boardwalk where a fireworks display had been set less than an hour earlier.