国际英语新闻:Two killed in dance studio shooting in Texas

HOUSTON, June 25 (Xinhua) -- Two people were killed and several others wounded Saturday in a shooting at a dance studio in a city in the northern part of the U.S. state of Texas, police said.

Police officers discovered one victim dead outside Studio 74 in Fort Worth and sent several injured to hospitals, a spokesman for the city's police department said in a statement.

But one of the injured died later at the hospital, the spokesman said, adding that homicide detectives were investigating at the scene.

No further information was immediately available.

In a separate incident, Houston police said on Saturday that a mother shot and killed her two daughters in southwest Houston on Friday, and that she was killed by a police officer who tried to stop the killing.

Because of loose gun control, the United States, with more than 300 million guns scattered nationwide, has long been plagued by gun violence.

The Republican-controlled Texas supports people's right of owning a gun. As of Jan. 1, 2016, the state of Texas allows concealed handgun permit holders to begin carrying handguns openly.

Currently, purchasing firearms at gun shows and on the Internet does not require any background check in the majority of U.S. states.

The country is still reeling from the deadliest shooting massacre in U.S. history. Forty-nine people were killed and 53 others wounded by a lone gunman on June 12 in a shooting spree at a popular nightclub in Orlando, Florida. Enditem