A heavy police presence was observed at the accident site
Ten people have been killed following a shooting at a dance studio in Monterey Park, California.
Police said 10 other people were wounded and the shooter is still at large.
Captain Andrew Meyer stated that emergency services had reached the site and confirmed that 10 people had been killed, and that people were fleeing the site amidst screams.
“Another incident occurred in Hamra, a county in the Monterey Park area,” Meyer said.
“We have investigators on site trying to establish whether there is a link between the two shooting incidents,” he added.
No one was hurt in the second incident, but police remained on the scene.
Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Office said they are looking for a man who fired the shot and fled the scene.
Investigators believe it is too early to consider the work a “hate crime”.
An eyewitness told the Los Angeles Times that three people ran into his restaurant and told him to close the door because someone with a machine gun was in the area.
“What we know is that the shooting has nothing to do with the Lunar New Year celebrations, and it seems that the shooting took place in a dance studio, where a man with an automatic machine gun entered and fired several magazines at people, most of them Asian-Americans,” the newspaper’s reporter, Jung Park, told the BBC.
An eyewitness said that a person fled by car after the accident.
The accident occurred in Monterey Park, 13 km east of Los Angeles, just after 10 p.m. local time on Saturday.
Thousands had gathered in the city for the Lunar New Year festival in Monterey Park.
The annual Lunar New Year celebrations attracted more than 100,000 visitors.
The festivities were scheduled to end at nine o’clock on Saturday evening local time.
About 600,000 people live in the Monterey Park area, and there is a large Asian community living in the area.
