New Orleans, Nov 18 (AP) New Orleans police were investigating after two people were killed and nine others wounded in two separate shootings Sunday along a parade route, authorities said.

Officers responding to reports of gunfire shortly after 3:30 pm along an avenue in the St Roch neighbourhood found eight victims with gunshot wounds, according to a news release from the New Orleans Police Department. All eight were hospitalised in unknown condition.

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About 45 minutes later, police received another report of gunfire on the same avenue, about a kilometre to the north. One person died at the scene and another died at a hospital, the news release said. A third victim was driven to a hospital in a private car and is in stable condition, police said.

The shootings occurred in the area where a "second line", a celebration following a parade, was taking place, officials said.

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No arrests were announced. (AP)

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