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		</div><p>A heavily armed man and woman opened fire on a holiday banquet for his co-workers, killing 14 people and seriously wounding more than a dozen others, authorities have said.</p>
<p>Yesterday&#8217;s shooting happened at a social services centre for the disabled where the suspect&#8217;s colleagues with the San Bernardino County Department of Public Health were renting space for a celebration.</p>
<p>Hours later, the suspects died in a shoot-out with police.</p>
<p>It was the nation&#8217;s deadliest mass shooting since the attack at a school in Newtown, Connecticut, three years ago that left 26 children and adults dead.</p>
<p>San Bernardino police chief Jarrod Burguan identified one dead suspect as Syed Rizwan Farook, 28, the other as Tashfeen Malik, 27, his wife or fiancee.</p>
<p>Mr Burguan said Farook was born in the United States but added he did not know Malik&#8217;s background.</p>
<p>The attackers invaded the Inland Regional Centre about 60 miles east of Los Angeles, opening fire in a conference area where county health officials were having an employee banquet, said Marybeth Feild, president and chief executive of the non-profit centre.</p>
<p>&#8220;They came prepared to do what they did, as if they were on a mission,&#8221; Mr Burguan said.</p>
<p>Farook attended the event before leaving.</p>
<p>Co-worker Patrick Baccari said he was sitting at the same table as Farook, who suddenly disappeared, leaving his coat on his chair.</p>
<p>Mr Baccari said when the shooting started, he sought refuge in a bathroom and suffered minor wounds from shrapnel slicing through the wall.</p>
<p>Mr Baccari described Farook as reserved and said he showed no signs of unusual behaviour. Earlier this year he travelled to Saudi Arabia and returned with a wife, Mr Baccari said.</p>
<p>The FBI is investigating several possible motives, according to David Bowdich, assistant director of the bureau&#8217;s Los Angeles office.</p>
<p>Farook was a restaurant inspector for the health department, according to public records. Police chief Mr Burguan said he had been a county employee for five years.</p>
<p>The couple dropped off their six-month-old daughter with relatives on Wednesday morning, saying they had a doctor&#8217;s appointment, Hussam Ayloush, executive director of the Council on American-Islamic Relations, said after talking with family.</p>
<p>Farhan Khan, who is married to Farook&#8217;s sister, told reporters he last spoke to his brother-in-law about a week ago. He said he was in shock, condemned the violence, and had &#8220;absolutely no idea why he would do this.&#8221;</p>
<p>About four hours after the morning carnage, police hunting for the killers riddled a black SUV with gunfire in a shoot-out two miles from the social services centre.</p>
<p>Farook and Malik were found with assault rifles and semi-automatic handguns, and were wearing &#8220;assault-style clothing&#8221; with ammunition attached, authorities said.</p>
<p>In the morning, as the gunfire echoed through the large three-building complex, some people locked themselves in offices, waiting for police and texting or making phone calls to loved ones.</p>
<p>&#8220;People shot. In the office waiting for cops. Pray for us. I am locked in an office,&#8221; Terry Petit&#8217;s daughter, who works at the centre, texted him.</p>
<p>Olivia Navarro said her daughter, Jamile Navarro, a case manager at the social service centre, called her and whispered that she was hiding in a locked room.</p>
<p>&#8220;I said, &#8216;All right, I&#8217;ll be there, turn off the lights, don&#8217;t make a sound&#8217;,&#8221; Ms Navarro said. &#8220;And that was it.&#8221; Her daughter survived.</p>
<p>According to the centre&#8217;s web page, it has a client base of more than 30,000 people and their families. It is a privately run non-profit, the largest of its kind in California with about 670 employees.</p>
<p>Seventeen people were wounded, according to authorities. Ten were sent to hospital in critical condition, and three were in serious condition, fire chief Tom Hannemann said.</p>
<p>One witness, Glenn Willwerth, who runs a business across the street, said he heard 10 to 15 shots and then saw an SUV with tinted windows pull out &#8220;very calmly, very slowly&#8221; and drive off.</p>
<p>As the manhunt dragged on, stores, office buildings and schools were locked down in the city, and roads blocked off.</p>
<p>With police looking for a dark SUV, officers staking out a home in the nearby city of Redlands saw a vehicle matching that description. Public records show the home is a possible residence of a family member of Farook.</p>
<p>Authorities pursued the SUV, and one officer among nearly two dozen involved in the shoot-out suffered a minor injury.</p>
<p>A fake bomb &#8211; a metal pipe stuffed with cloth &#8211; was thrown from the SUV during the chase, said Agent Meredith Davis of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.</p>
<p>Three explosive devices &#8211; thought to be real and all connected to one another &#8211; were found at the social service centre and later detonated by a bomb squad, police said.</p>
<p>President Barack Obama urged the country to take steps to reduce mass shootings, including stricter gun laws and stronger background checks.</p>
<p>&#8220;The one thing we do know is that we have a pattern now of mass shootings in this country that has no parallel anywhere else in the world,&#8221; Mr Obama told CBS.</p>
<p>Federal authorities said that the two assault rifles and two handguns used in the violence were purchased legally.</p>
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