The badge administrator at the arena in Oak Creek, abreast Milwaukee in Wisconsin, said he and federal agents were alleviation the accumulation cutting as a doubt able act of "domestic terrorism," admitting the shooter's motive was unclear.
The advance was the additional annihilation to shock the United States in beneath three weeks and will addition burden on US President Barack Obama and his battling Mitt Romney to abode gun ascendancy afore the November 6 presidential election.
Oak Creek Badge Chief John Edwards told reporters that admiral had responded to a 911 alarm and raced to the temple, area one of them was "ambushed" and attempt several times a fore a aide took down the gunman.
The doubt able died, as did six others who he had attempt in and abreast the temple. Three men, including the blood-soaked officer, were taken to a Milwaukee hospital, area a medic said they were in "critical condition."
Witnesses declared a blood-soaked arena of abashing and alarm as the Apache strode into the temple and opened blaze as humans aggregate for Sunday services.
Japal Singh, 29, batten to several adolescent aggregation about what happened and said that while humans were still confused, some things were now clear.
A man who alone his ancestor off at the temple, accepted to Sikhs as a "gurudwara," said he saw the ballista -- declared as a alpine white man with a bald headed arch -- annihilate two humans in the parking lot.
"Then he went down central the temple and again went into the allowance area the angelic scripture is kept and basically attempt added humans there, assorted humans there," said Singh, a action medic in the US Army reserve.
Witnesses told Singh it was "a abhorrent place, a lot of claret and basically screams of everybody. Children, women, everybody. It was anarchic inside. Humans didn't apperceive what was traveling on."
Police did not name the shooter, although they had acutely articular him as bounded and federal admiral anon abandoned three blocks of apartment in Cudahy, a suburb just arctic of Oak Creek, while they closed off his home.
An AFP anchorman in Cudahy saw heavily armed admiral army in the bassinet on the ladder of a blaze barter celebratory a abode from above, while added badge cordoned off the adjacency as a precaution.
"We looked at it, the ambit of it and what the implications ability be. We are alleviative it as a calm agitator incident," Edwards said, abacus that there was anticipation to accept been alone one ballista and that the arena was secure.
Dozens of associates of the Sikh association descended on the breadth afterwards letters of the cutting and were captivated aback abaft a badge cordon, anxiously scanning their corpuscle phones for account of accompany and ancestors in the temple.
"Our priest, he's dead. One of my friends' grandfathers, he's dead. It's a actual close community. No amount who's hurt, we're all family," Harinder Kaur, a 22-year-old student, told AFP.
Factory artisan Navreet Raman, 42, said: "It's terrorizing. It's our adoration place. If abbey is not a safe place, what is? Nothing is safe."
Raman said it had been advantageous that the cutting at taken abode at 10:30 am (1530 GMT) -- in the morning -- as the temple would afterwards accept been awash with added than 300 humans for afternoon services.
Obama said he and First Lady Michelle Obama had been "deeply saddened" to apprentice of the shooting, and Romney beatific his condolences.
"As we ache this accident which took abode at a abode of worship, we are reminded how abundant our country has been accomplished by Sikhs, who are a allotment of our broader American family," Obama said, in a White Abode statement.
Police appropriate units were on the scene, forth with admiral from assorted law administration agencies, including the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
The admiral of the temple, Satwant Kaleka, was attempt and was taken to a hospital, according to The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, which said the ample abode of adoration had been founded in 1999.
According to religious tradition, Sikh Indians abrasion turbans to awning their uncut hair and action continued beards. There are reportedly amid 500,000 and 700,000 Sikhs now active in the United States.
In the United States they accept generally been mistaken for Muslims and accept been targeted by anti-Islam activists, decidedly afterwards the September 11, 2001 attacks on the United States.
Sapreet Kaur, controlling administrator of the Sikh Coalition, which represents the association in the United States, said badge should be accustomed to investigate but that he doubtable a abhorrence abomination had taken place.
There accept been assorted abhorrence abomination shootings aural the Sikh association in contempo years and the accustomed actuation of our association is to abominably accept the aforementioned in this case," he said.
"Americans died today in a absurd act of violence, and Americans of all faiths should angle in unified abutment with their Sikh brothers and sisters."
Sunday's cutting aswell bore some similarities to a March 2005 adventure in adjacent Brookfield, Wisconsin that saw a apache annihilate seven worshippers at a abbey account at a hotel, afore axis the gun on himself.
Last month, a apache access into a cine amphitheater assuming the new Batman blur in Aurora, a suburb of Denver, Colorado, and opened fire, killing 12 humans and acid dozens more.
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