悲しい事件がビンガムトンで発生090403

　早朝のNHKラジオニュースで、ビンガムトンの銃撃事件を聞く。何であんなに静かな町でと思う。現地のメディアを見ると、現地の人の声が次のように出ている。大変お世話になった町でこのような事件が発生して残念だ。亡くなった人のご冥福を祈ります。
“I can’t believe that this wonderful, beautiful little city would have this kind of experience. It’s just amazing.”

　以下は、NYTの記事抜粋。
14 Dead in Rampage in Binghamton, N.Y.

A gunman invaded an immigration services center in downtown Binghamton, N.Y., during citizenship classes on Friday and shot 13 people to death and critically wounded 4 others before killing himself in a paroxysm of violence that turned a quiet civic setting into scenes of carnage and chaos.

Binghamton, a city of about 43,000 at the confluence of the Susquehanna and Chenango Rivers in the Southern Tier, some 175 miles northwest of New York City, is the home of Binghamton University, part of the State University of New York. It is a working-class town whose population is more than 80 percent white and about 10 percent black, with small percentages of Asians and Latinos.