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Five killed in North Carolina shooting

Police are on the scene in Raleigh, North Carolina after reports five people had been shot dead.

Police are on the scene in Raleigh, North Carolina after reports five people had been shot dead. Photo: AAP

Five people including an off-duty police officer have been shot dead, prompting a massive manhunt that shut down part of the North Carolina capital of Raleigh.

The suspect has been “contained,” Mayor Mary-Ann Baldwin said on Thursday.

At least two other people including a police officer were wounded and taken to hospital, Baldwin told a news conference.

“We must stop this mindless violence in America,” Mayor Baldwin said, without providing many details about the shooting spree.

The suspected shooter was thought to be a white teenage male with a long gun, ABC News affiliate WTVD reported, adding no one had been taken into custody yet but that the suspect had been cornered in a garage by authorities.

There were multiple crime scenes set up by authorities, the report added.

Helicopter video from WRAL-TV showed more than a dozen emergency vehicles lined up on a road through a wooded area.

North Carolina Governor Roy Cooper said he spoke to Mayor Baldwin and was deploying state resources to assist at the scene.

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