A third person has died after a mass shooting at a food festival in Seattle which also left four people, including a toddler, injured.
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Two people died at the scene and a third later died in hospital, with the mayor describing the incident as “an act of horrific violence”.
“Our attention belongs to the people whose lives were taken, those fighting to recover, and the families beside them,” Mayor Katie Wilson said.
Elsewhere, Pentagon officials have added more than 140 wounded US service members and introduced a new category for troops killed and injured during the renewed fighting with Iran.
The latest report has stirred up controversy, with Republican Congressman Thomas Massie describing it as an “absurd ruse” in attempt to downplay losses.
The Defense Casualty Analysis System (DCAS) was updated over the weekend to include an “Overseas Operations” category covering personnel killed and wounded “starting July 7”.
According to the revised figures, the official toll for the initial phase of the US-Iran war, dubbed by the White House as “Operation Epic Fury”, now stands at 14 service members killed and more than 400 wounded in action.
The update follows controversy after the Pentagon previously reduced Operation Epic Fury’s casualty totals from 18 deaths and 482 wounded, figures that had appeared in the database just days earlier.
It came as Iran and the US held their fire today, handing Gulf shipping and the oil industry a respite from missile strikes as Donald Trump’s UN envoy said the president was “giving talks some space”.
Iran said it had halted retaliatory attacks against Washington’s allies in the Middle East, and US ambassador to the United Nations Mike Waltz told Fox News that, while forces remained “locked and loaded”, Mr Trump would give negotiations “a little bit of room”.
