Police search for gunman after seven hurt in Kentucky highway shooting
Al Jazeera
Authorities are looking for a man suspected of shooting at cars travelling along a rural stretch of the I-75 highway.
Police in the southern United States state of Kentucky are searching for the shooter after as many as seven people were injured on a rural stretch of a major highway.
They had been driving along the road just before 6pm (10:00 GMT) not far from London, the town’s mayor, Randall Weddle, said on Facebook.
Kentucky State Police spokesman Scottie Pennington said earlier that between four and six people had been hurt.
Local news station WYMT said there were “multiple severe injuries” but no confirmed deaths.
The shooting led to the temporary closure of Interstate 75, a major north-south highway that cuts across the eastern half of the US, in both directions.
