Eight people were shot and two stabbed during a brawl at a popular dance club in New York's Times Square neighbourhood last night.
According to witnesses, a man pulled out handgun and began firing into the crowd at the Broadway City Arcade, a large entertainment complex.
Witnesses said as many as 10 bullets were fired, touching off a stampede that led to some 200 people fighting to escape the club. Patrons spilled down an escalator from a second-floor dance space, and at least two more people were injured during the rush to the doors.
The victims, all between 17 and 25 years old, were taken to several nearby hospitals.
Police were questioning two male suspects last night.Authorities recovered four knives and two box cutters at the club but said no guns were found.
A nightclub fire killed almost 100 people last month in the state of Rhode Island.
A few days earlier, a stampede at a Chicago, Illinois, nightclub crushed 21 people to death.
AFP