A gunman opened fire on a Walmart store in Chesapeake, Virginia as police said there are “multiple fatalities”.

A police spokesperson says officers are still combing the site of the shooting but believe a single perpetrator is now dead.

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Asked how many victims were involved, a police spokesperson said there were multiple people wounded and “less than 10 dead” as of a short while ago.

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More than 40 emergency vehicles rushed to the scene on Battlefield Boulevard after a 911 call was made shortly after 10.10 pm local time on Tuesday.

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Police said there were multiple people wounded and “less than 10 dead”.

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Louise Lucas, a Virginia senator, said the Walmart that was attacked fell within her constituency, and that she was “heartbroken”.

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“I am absolutely heartbroken that America’s latest mass shooting took place in a Walmart in my district in Chesapeake, Virginia tonight,” she wrote on Twitter.

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At least five injured people from the Walmart store were rushed to the Norfolk General Hospital for treatment, Sky News reported.

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