Man kills two, wounds three in Florence shooting spree

ROME - Florence was in mourning on Wednesday after an Italian far-right author shot dead two Senegalese men and wounded three others before killing himself in a daylight shooting spree that prompted outpourings of grief.

Witnesses said they saw the gunman calmly getting out of a car at a street market on Piazza Dalmazia, north of the city center, and firing three shots that instantly killed the two Senegalese vendors and seriously wounded a third.

The white assailant, identified by authorities as 50-year-old Gianluca Casseri, then moved on to the San Lorenzo market in the center - a popular destination for tourists - where he wounded two more vendors.