India, Oct. 5 -- Gunmen from rival gangs started shooting at each other in a crowded downtown nightlife district in Alabama's capital city of Montgomery on Saturday night, killing two people and injuring 12 others.

Montgomery Police Chief James Graboys said three of the injured were hospitalised with life-threatening injuries. Police were called around 11:30 PM to what Graboys described as a "mass shooting."

"This was two parties involved that were basically shooting at each other in the middle of a crowd," the Associated Press quoted Graboys as saying. He said that the shooters"did not care about the people around them when they did it."Lieutenant Tina McGriff told local media that an adult woman was among those killed and that at leas...