NEW JERSEY MALL EVACUATED

A shopping centre in the US state of New Jersey has been evacuated after multiple shots were heard, with some people locked down inside stores.Some witnesses said the shooting happened in front of the Garden State Plaza in the northern New Jersey town of Paramus around closing time on Monday night. The shopping centre is located in Bergen county, about 35km southwest of Manhattan.Other witnesses said they heard multiple shots seconds apart inside New Jersey's biggest shopping centre, with CNN reporting that the shooter had fired at security cameras.Televised images from outside showed a heavy police presence, with dozens of the force's vehicles converging on the shopping centre.Richard LaBarbiera, mayor of Paramus, said no injuries had yet been reported.