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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
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Katie Adkins and Jeff Martin

Mississippi school homecoming celebrations turn deadly as 6 people are killed in separate shootings

Mississippi Shootings - (ASSOCIATED PRESS)

High school homecoming celebrations in Mississippi ended in gunfire, with two separate shootings on opposite sides of the state Friday night that left at least six people dead and many more injured, authorities said.

Four of the dead were killed in downtown Leland, after a high school football homecoming game in the Mississippi Delta region on the state's western edge, a state senator said Saturday. On the east side of the state, a pregnant woman was among the dead, Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves said.

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