US shooting: two dead, 12 injured

Two people are dead, and 12 people were hurt at a block party, which led to a shooting and several people being struck by vehicles in Charlotte, the largest city of the US's North Carolina early Monday morning, report says citing WBTV. 

The incident happened around midnight near Catherine Simmons Avenue, where hundreds of people gathered. Police said they arrived to find hundreds of people in the streets as shots went off.

Nine people were shot, police say, and two of them killed. The other seven people were hospitalized, along with the five people who were reportedly hit by vehicles. Medic says five, possibly six, people have life-threatening injuries.

Police say there is evidence of multiple shooters involved, but so far, there are no arrests.

Witnesses say people were gathering to celebrate Juneteenth, which commemorates when the last enslaved African Americans learned they were free 155 years ago.