A man opened fire on passersby in a city in central Italy, injuring several African migrants, in an attack that appeared to be racially motivated.
“Shots fired in Macerata. People injured. Police operation under way. Stay out of the way and avoid open places,” the police said on Twitter. Shortly afterwards, they said one man had been arrested.
The suspect reportedly made a fascist salute as he was arrested.
“The person who sowed panic in our city this morning was captured. You can get out of your homes and pick up the kids from school,” Mayor Romano Carancini said in a statement posted on local Facebook sites.
Newspaper Corriere della Sera said a man fired from a car window at two young African migrants shortly after 11am (10am UK time) on Saturday, injuring one of them.
A short while later another migrant and an African woman were shot.
It was not clear how serious their injuries were. The shooter reportedly drove a black Alfa Romeo car.
The shootings were reported in different parts of the town, which is 125 miles east of Rome.
The shootings happened just days after the dismembered body of an 18-year-old Italian woman was discovered hidden in two suitcases near Macerata.
A 29-year-old Nigerian migrant has been arrested in connection with her death.
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