Fired employee shoots 5 colleagues dead

A fired employee killed five people at a company on an industrial estate in the US state of Illinois.

The perpetrator started shooting people at around 14.00 hours (local time) at a business premises in Aurora, a town west of Chicago. The shooter is the 45-year-old Gary Martin who was told earlier in the day that he was fired, according to the police during a press conference. He did not make a revolver much later and opened fire to colleagues.