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Women's World Cup opens in New Zealand despite deadly shooting hours before

New Zealand's Ali Riley and Norway's Caroline Graham Hansen in the opening match of the Fifa Women's World Cup in Auckland, New Zealand, 20 July 2023. © David Rowland/Reuters

The opening match of the Women's World Cup in Auckland, New Zealand went ahead as planned Thursday after a shooting hours earlier near the Norwegian team’s hotel left three people dead and six injured.

A gunman opened fire with a pump-action shotgun on the third floor of a building under construction near the hotel housing the Norwegian team in central Auckland Thursday morning, killing two people and injuring six, including a police officer.

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