Five people, including a six-year-old child, have been wounded in a shooting during a parade in Louisiana, sending people in the crowd fleeing for cover, authorities say.

The shooting occurred shortly after the midday start of the Mardi Gras in the Country parade in Clinton, East Feliciana sheriff Jeff Travis told reporters.

Travis said three people in the area who had firearms were taken into custody but that it wasn’t clear whether they were involved in the shooting.

At the time of the shooting in Clinton on Saturday, there had been at least 24 mass shootings in the US so far in the year, according to the nonpartisan Gun Violence Archive.

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      Is this really necessary? I hate the governments of several countries (my own most of all). I would never call an entire country violent and rotten because of it.

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        I know, that’s not what i meant even though it stands out like that. It was an overgeneralization on my part. I apologize. I stand with people against all rotten governments, and against rotten people. It’s sad to constantly hear these news about what used to be a great country and not be affected by it, even if these things can happen in many other country including Canada.

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      It was already evident you’re operating on jealousy and emotion as opposed to reason and logic — no need to inform us further.

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        Oh i agree geographically it’s a beautiful land, I’ve seen a lot of the US, from the east to the west, north and south, deserts and mountains… And the people are wonderful (if they’re not fascist racist idiotic magas). But with all the shootings that keep happening, especially the school shootings, ICE, and not to forget your government’s spread of terrorism and war all over the globe, a pedo president, it’s hard not to regard your country as a violent and rotten place. I can go on and on but it’s pointless.