One killed, five injured in Orlando shooting

A gunman opened fire inside a high-rise office building in Or-lando, Florida, yesterday, kill-ing one person and wounding five others, the mayor and the local police chief said.

The suspected gunman, who fled the Gateway Centre building in downtown Orlando after the incident, was later apprehended at his mother's home, Orlando Mayor Buddy Dyer and Police Chief Val Demmings told reporters.

"There is one confirmed fatality," Police Chief Demmings said. Local media had earlier reported two people killed in the shooting.

The shooting, coming a day after a mass shooting at a US army base in Texas which killed 13 people, caused panic in and around the Orlando office buil-ding as armed police moved in and evacuated workers.

Orlando police said the 40-year-old suspect was a former employee at the office of an engineering and architecture company in the building who had returned to the location and started firing.