3 police officers killed, 2 injured in a shooting in Pennsylvania, said the police

Three police officers were fatally slaughtered and two wounded Wednesday in southern Pennsylvania, and the shooter was killed by police, authorities announced.

“We mourn for the loss of the life of three precious souls who served this county, served this Commonwealth, served this country,” said Governor Josh Shapiro.

“This kind of violence is not ok, we have to do better as a society,” he continued.

The shooting broke out in the canton sector of North Codorus, about 185 kilometers west of Philadelphia, not far from the line of Maryland, the authorities said.

“The sorrow will be unbearable but we will bear it”, Christopher Paris, police commissioner of the state of Pennsylvania, during a press conference. “We will not rest before carrying out a complete, fair and competent investigation on this subject.”

The York Hospital said it was treating two people in serious condition and that improved security protocols were in place.

Paris would not say to what police service to whom the police belonged, but they were on the scene to follow up on a domestic investigation which started the day before.

The authorities did not identify the shooter or the officers, and they did not describe the circumstances of the way they were slaughtered. Police could not share a lot of details because the investigation is underway, said Paris.

According to Paris, the York Hospital treated two people in a serious state linked to a police incident in the county of Northern York.

The hospital said that improved security protocols were in place.

US prosecutor Pamela Bondi called violence against the police “a scourge on our society”. She said that federal agents were on the scene to support local officers.

“Please send prayers to officers and people involved in the shooting in the county of York,” said Pennsylvania Lieutenant Governor Davis in an article on social networks.

Pennsylvania’s prosecutor general Dave said that he was also heading for the premises. In an article on social networks, Sunday urged “all residents to follow the instructions of local police” and said that he “prayed for all those involved”.

A local school district has published a shelter prescription on site, although he said that schools and students were not involved in the shooting. The order was lifted later in the afternoon.

The district said in a statement that the authorities “advised us to hold students and staff in our buildings as a precaution while several roads in the region are closed”.

The incident took place in the agricultural area

The medical response took place on a rural road from the South Center of Pennsylvania which winds through an agricultural area with a barn and agricultural fields.

The consulate of Mexico in Philadelphia declared in an article on social networks that they “monitored the incident” in Pennsylvania and had advised Mexican residents near the official instructions. A spokesperson for the Mexican consulate in Philadelphia said that the position was “only a precautionary alert for our community”.

It was not clear why the consulate had made the post, which seems to have been deleted.

The police have provided no details on which was involved in the shooting.

The police kept people who were well behind the premises in the hilly agricultural land of the region, with around thirty police vehicles blocking the roads bordered by a barn, a goat farm and soy and corn terrains.

“Pennsylvania state police, northern regional police and many emergency speakers are on the scene. The County Commissioners are closely monitoring the situation and pray for all those involved,” the county said in a statement.

An officer in the region was killed in February, when a man armed with a pistol and zipped ties entered the hospital’s intensive care unit and took staff members before a shooting who left the suspect and a dead officer.