gunmen opened fire on a group of contractors

[Sam3]

**** Water-World types.

Well, alright-then.


Police kill at least 5 in New Orleans
Gunmen open fire on contractors; no workers reported killed

The Associated Press
Updated: 7:47 p.m. ET Sept. 4, 2005


NEW ORLEANS - Police shot and killed at least five people Sunday after gunmen opened fire on a group of contractors traveling across a bridge on their way to make repairs, authorities said.

Deputy Police Chief W.J. Riley said police shot at eight people carrying guns, killing five or six.

Fourteen contractors were traveling across the Danziger Bridge under police escort when they came under fire, said John Hall, a spokesman for the Army Corps of Engineers.

They were on their way to launch barges into Lake Pontchartrain to help plug the breech in the 17th Street Canal, Hall said.

None of the contractors was injured, Mike Rogers, a disaster relief coordinator with the Army Corps of Engineers, told reporters in Baton Rouge.

The bridge spans a canal connecting Lake Pontchartrain and the Mississippi River.

No other details were immediately available.

This breaking story will be updated.
© 2005 MSNBC.com

URL: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/9208195/

 

[Starbreaker666]

Sounds fine to me... Good job on the poilces part. These roving gangs are trying to hamper evacuation and rescue proccesses. If they shoot the cops should kill them where they stand..

 

[Pablo]

I was thinking Iraq. Then I thought drug addicts.

I gotta get a new mind and a new butt. One has gone bad and the other has a crack in it.

 

[Steve S]

I would bet that these criminals are known and previously ignored.

 

[GROUCHO MARX]

We have a fine line between order and anarchy in this country.

 

[Pablo]

GM - and that's the way it should be. It would be a tad bit better if people stopped behaving like.........well....er....people.