[1/5] Police are stationed outside Central Maine Medical Center where victims are being treated after deadly mass shootings in Lewiston, Maine, U.S. October 26, 2023. The emergency room was overflowing with wounded and bleeding patients, casualties of the latest mass shooting to hit an American city. Eight shooting victims, including five who are stable and three in critical condition, remained in the hospital on Thursday. While there is one on-call after hours surgeon, upward of 30 surgeons were on site within minutes of the first ambulances arriving at the hospital, King said. "This shooting hits really hard in a city like Lewiston and a state like Maine."

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