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Witnesses have been speaking of their terror after at least six people were killed at an Independence Day parade near the US city of Chicago.

The mass shooting comes a month after the deadly shootings in Uvalde, Texas, and Buffalo, New York.

Philip Nowak was at the Highland Park parade with his wife and two young children when the shots rang out. He told Newsday about the terrifying moment he realised there was a shooter in their midst. He said his son is particularly traumatised: 鈥淭he last thing he said to me this evening before he went to sleep is he thought he was going to be shot in the back when he was running. I mean that is absolutely heart-breaking as a parent.鈥�

(Picture: A tricycle is seen near the scene of a mass shooting at a Fourth of July parade route in the wealthy Chicago suburb of Highland Park, Illinois, US, July 4, 2022. Credit: REUTERS/Max Herman)