San Francisco, Sep 13 : An unidentified gunman shot dead five people, including his wife, and later committed suicide in the US state of California, authorities said.

The killings took place in two different places in Bakersfield city on Wednesday night and Sheriff Donny Youngblood of the Kern County said the incident was not a random mass shooting, reports Efe news.

"This is highly unusual to have six people shot and dead in one incident," The Bakersfield Californian daily quoted Youngblood said. The Sheriff said the suspect went to a trucking business with his wife and confronted another male at the business.

Bakersfield is some 145 km north of Los Angeles.

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Alappuzha (Kerala) (PTI): A probe has been launched after human body parts were found under a train coach here on Saturday, police said.

According to Alappuzha Railway Police, a human right arm along with a finger of a foot was found on an iron bracket under the auxiliary reservoir tank of the S-5 coach of the Alappuzha–Dhanbad Express.

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The body parts were noticed by cleaning staff when the train was parked at the pit-line yard early in the morning.

The train had reached Alappuzha from Dhanbad on Friday evening and was scheduled to depart again on Saturday morning.

Railway police have registered a case of unnatural death and begun an investigation.

Police said an inquest will be conducted and a detailed probe is underway into the incident.

They will also seek details from police in other states to ascertain whether any deaths were reported along the route on which the train had been operating in recent days.