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Police car near the crime scene in Miami
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The perpetrators drove up shortly after midnight in a white SUV: In Miami, Florida, strangers are said to have shot at guests of a nightclub on Sunday night.
According to police, several people were standing in front of the restaurant when three men got out of the SUV and shot into the crowd.
Two people died on the spot and at least 20 others were injured and taken to hospitals for treatment, Miami-Dade County police said.
The attackers fled in the car, it said.
The venue, El Mula Banquet Hall, had been rented for a concert that evening.
Police chief Alfredo Ramirez III spoke in the short message service Twitter of a "targeted and cowardly act of gun violence".
The attackers are "cold-blooded murderers" who are being held accountable.
Deadly gun violence occurs again and again in the United States.
Last year, more than 43,000 people died from firearms, including suicides, nationwide, according to the Gun Violence Archive
US President Joe Biden condemned gun violence as an "epidemic" and "international disgrace" last month.
Biden had recently decided to tighten the rules of the very loose gun law, but he would need the approval of Congress for more far-reaching reforms.
There, legislative proposals fail time and again due to the resistance of the conservative Republicans.
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