Gunman kills five at Florida's Ft Lauderdale airport

At least five people have been shot dead and eight others wounded in a shooting incident at Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport in the US state of Florida. Florida's Broward County Sheriff's office confirmed Friday's shooting in an update on Twitter. The sheriff's office also stated that a suspect has been taken into custody.  The gunman has been identified as a 26-year-old American born Esteban Santiago, who got off a plane from Canada," Al Jazeera's Tom Ackerman, reporting from Washington DC, said. After claiming his bag, the man reportedly "emptied his luggage outside the baggage claim area, loaded his hand gun" and started shooting at random, Ackerman added. Officials gave no possible motive for the shooting inside Terminal 2, which serves Delta Air Lines and Air Canada.
"At this point, it looks like he acted alone," Sheriff Scott Israel said. Nonetheless, he said "this scene is considered fluid and active" as police search the rest of the airport.
The airport remains shut. Planes scheduled to land at Fort Lauderdale have been diverted to other airports in Florida. All eight of the wounded have been transferred to a hospital for medical attention.