From the USA, reports of shooting at one of the air force bases come. We are talking about the Grand Forks Air Force Base in North Dakota.
According to recent reports, as a result of shooting, which was open at about half past four in the morning on Monday (local time) in the hostel for personnel at the air base, two soldiers were killed.
Colonel Cameron Pringle, being a representative of the command of the air base, He stated, which at the moment cannot name all the details of what happened due to the ongoing investigation.
At the same time, during the briefing, the colonel announced, that at the moment "the situation at the air base is calm, everything is safe in the hostel for the military ”.
Asked an American officer, is it allowed to carry weapons in a dormitory for military personnel at an air base. Colonel Pringle stated, that there is no such permission, nor was he able to answer the question of, how, then, a firearm in a military dormitory building turned out to be.
This is not the first shooting incident at the Grand Forks Air Force Base.. AT 2013 a military pilot was killed there. Military police used weapons against him. The true causes of that tragic incident have not yet been established.. Besides, at 2015 year, a military pilot shot a local resident near the air base, after which the serviceman himself was found dead. Fatalities at Grand Forks also occurred in 2010 and 2011 year. Then, allegedly, pilots committed suicide.
Colonel Pringle stated, that on the basis of the "service of psychological support of the flight crew".
