A US-born Muslim who along with his wife gunned down 14
people in California may have been radicalized and had been in contact with
known terrorism suspects, news reports say.
The FBI, which has cautioned it was too early to link the
attack to terrorism, has taken charge of the investigation into Wednesday's mass
shooting in San Bernardino.
Agents were combing through evidence to determine what
prompted Syed Farook, 28, and his 27-year-old Pakistani wife Tashfeen Malik to
carry out the rampage that also left 21 people wounded.
Law enforcement officials quoted by The New York Times
Thursday night said the FBI was treating the shooting as a potential terror
act, but the agency was far
from concluding the motive.
from concluding the motive.
Source: AFP
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