Three people were killed and 11 others injured yesterday in a shooting on a street usually busy at night in the US city of Philadelphia, police said.

The inspector for the Philadelphia Police Department told reporters: “As far as we know, 14 people were wounded by gunfire and taken to hospitals on the spot.”

The death of three of them, two men and a woman, was announced after arriving at hospitals, as they had several wounds caused by gunfire, AFP reported.