New Orleans Mother's Day parade shooting injures 17

No deaths reported as gunmen fire on revelers, including 10-year-old girl

Gunmen opened fire on dozens of people marching in a Mother's Day second-line parade in New Orleans on Sunday, wounding at least 17 people, police said.

Police spokeswoman Remi Braden said in an email that many of the 17 victims were grazed and most of the wounds weren't life-threatening. No deaths were reported.

Police Superintendent Ronal Serpas told reporters that a 10-year-old girl was grazed in the shooting around 2 p.m. She was in good condition. He said three or four people were in surgery, but he didn't have their conditions.

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Twisted metal, torn lives in blast-hit Texas town

The deadly explosion of a fertilizer plant rippled through this quiet Texas town with the force of an earthquake, leaving behind shattered homes, mounds of debris and unanswered questions. 

As rescuers near the epicenter of the blast searched for survivors, residents struggled to come to grips with the disaster, which flattened much of the tiny town of West, claiming up to 15 lives and leaving dozens homeless. 

Search and rescue workers comb through what remains of a 50-unit apartment building the day after an explosion at the West Fertilizer Company in West, Texas, April 18, 2013.

A huge chunk of twisted metal lay in a corn field, near crushed storage tanks and houses with peaked roofs sheared off by the blast, which had caused a massive fireball and generated tremors felt 50 miles (80 kilometers) away.