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Shooting at US base, two soldiers wounded

A member of the US National Guard has been arrested after two other soldiers were shot and wounded at a military base in Tennessee.

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Two National Guard soldiers have been wounded in a shooting at a US military base in Tennessee, a month after a rampage killed 13 at a base in Washington.

Police arrested the suspected gunman, who was also a member of the Guard, at about 1810 GMT, and the wounded members of the Army National Guard did not suffer life-threatening injuries, said Patrick Foughty, spokesman for Naval Installations Command in Washington.

The shooting in Millington, Tennessee occurred across the street from a naval base on land leased by the Army National Guard, he said.

"There was a shooting. The shooter is in custody," Foughty told AFP on Thursday.

Local media reported the shooting followed an argument among the three soldiers, with one of them pulling out a gun and opening fire, hitting one man in the leg and another in the foot.

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The Millington naval base handles personnel administration for the Navy, officials said.

The American military is reviewing security at all its installations after a deadly shooting spree on October 16 at the US Navy Yard in Washington in which a former sailor working as a contractor opened fire inside an office building.


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