Five soldiers were injured on Wednesday, August 6, in a large military base in the southeast of the United States on Wednesday, August 6, before the military authorities announced, which maintain partial confinement.
“Five soldiers were affected by fire shots today during an event that involved a shooter,” he wrote in Fort Stewart Social Networks, the base of the land near Savannah in Georgia, near the Atlantic coast.
Police called at 10:56 am local, arrested the shooter at 11:35 am (5:35 pm French time), specified the press release, adding that part of the base is always the subject of confinement. “There is no active danger anymore,” said the base. The health status of the five injured, ordered on the spot, was not specified.
“Immediate confinction”
On an earlier alert, the authorities of the military base called people within the greatest precaution: “Attack immediately, look inside and close all doors and windows.”
Fort Stewart welcomes around 21,000 soldiers, and about 10,000 people live there, according to their website. The governor of Georgia, Brian Kemp, said in X “saddened by today’s tragedy in Fort Stewart.”
President Donald Trump was informed of the situation, said his spokesman Karoline Leavitt.
With more firearms in circulation than residents, the United States showed the highest firearms mortality rate in all developed countries. In 2024, more than 16,000 people, not to mention suicides, were killed by firearms, according to the NGO weapon violence archive.
Source: BFM TV
