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MISSISSIPPI, USA: High school homecoming celebrations in Mississippi ended in gunfire, with two separate shootings on opposite sides of the state Friday night that left at least six people dead and many more injured, authorities said.
Four of the dead were killed in downtown Leland, after a high school football homecoming game in the Mississippi Delta region on the state’s western edge, a state senator said Saturday.
About 20 people were injured in the gunfire after people gathered in downtown Leland following the game, state Sen. Derrick Simmons said. Of the 20 wounded, four were in critical condition and flown from a hospital in nearby Greenville to a larger medical center in the state capital city of Jackson, Simmons told The Associated Press.

Simmons said he was being updated on developments by the Washington County Sheriff’s Office as well as from other law enforcement authorities in the Delta.
“People were just congregating and having a good time in the downtown of Leland,” Simmons said of the town with a population of fewer than 4,000 people.
He was told that after the gunfire, the scene was “very chaotic,” as police, sheriff’s deputies and ambulances “responded from all over.”
“It’s just senseless gun violence,” he said. “What we are experiencing now is just a proliferation of guns just being in circulation.”
No arrests have been announced, and Simmons said late Saturday morning that he had not heard any information about possible suspects.
“They are on the ground working and I have all the faith in the world that they will get to the bottom of this,” he said.
“As the state senator for the area, we are asking any and all individuals who might have any information regarding the horrific shooting last night to come forward and provide whatever information they have,” he added.
Meanwhile, police in the small Mississippi town of Heidelberg in the eastern part of the state are investigating a shooting during that community’s homecoming weekend that left two people dead.
Both of them were killed on the school campus Friday night, Heidelberg Police Chief Cornell White said. He declined to say whether the victims were students or provide other information about the crimes.
“Right now we’ve still got a subject at large, but I can’t give specifics,” White said Saturday morning.
An 18-year-old man was being sought for questioning in the Heidelberg shooting, the Jasper County Sheriff’s Office said in a statement. The sheriff asked that anyone with information contact the police chief or sheriff’s office.
The shooting in Heidelberg happened on the school campus where the Heidelberg Oilers were playing their homecoming football game Friday night. The town of about 640 residents is about 85 miles (137 kilometers) southeast of the state capital of Jackson.
It wasn’t clear exactly when the gunfire occurred or how close it was to the stadium. White said he was at the scene Saturday investigating, and that more information might be released in coming days.

WARSAW: Thousands of Poles took to the streets of Warsaw on Saturday to march against illegal immigration and European migration policy, according to AFP journalists.
Under heavy rain, protesters heeded a call from the main opposition Law and Justice party (PiS), which backs nationalist President Karol Nawrocki.
Supporters gathered at Castle Square at 2:00 p.m. (12:00 GMT) in the city’s Old Town, with many arriving by bus from across the country, waving Polish flags.
“I see what is happening in the West. I have two children who live in Germany, and I see the danger there and its impact on German identity. Germans now feel like minorities in their own country,” a 64-year-old retiree told AFP.
A large majority of the country, including supporters of Prime Minister Donald Tusk’s pro-EU governing coalition, favors the tightening of migration policy and a tougher stance on Ukrainian refugees, according to opinion polls.
Nawrocki and Tusk’s government are divided on immigration, foreign policy and support for Ukraine.
Nawrocki and the PiS party have repeatedly criticized the European Union’s migration pact, adopted last year and set to come into force in June 2026.
Under the agreement, member states would either be required to take in thousands of migrants from “frontline” countries or provide additional funding instead.
In a letter to European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen this week, Nawrocki said Poland, which has welcomed more than one million Ukrainian refugees since Russia’s full-scale invasion of their country in February 2022, had done its part.
“The overwhelming majority of Poles, from all political leanings, oppose the forced relocation of migrants to Poland,” he wrote.
“I will not consent to the implementation of the Migration and Asylum Pact in Poland,” he added.