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US: Colorado postal worker is third to be shot and killed in US in two days

A US Postal Service worker in Longmont, Colorado, was shot and killed on Wednesday October 13, according to a statement from police. The postal worker was the third to be killed in the US the two days, after two USPS employees were shot dead Tuesday in a Memphis postal facility. The FBI said the shooter in Memphis also was a postal employee. In Longmont, police said officers responding to a call found a postal employee shot in front of neighborhood mailboxes. The worker died at the scene.
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