A manhunt is underway in Kentucky after quite a lot of people have been shot alongside a freeway close to the town of London on Saturday.

The Laurel County Sheriff’s Office has named 32-year-old Joseph A Couch as an individual of curiosity, and warned the general public he’s thought of armed and harmful.

The incident started at about 18:00 native time (22:00 GMT), when police responded to a report of autos being fired upon close to Interstate 75.

According to native media, pictures might have been fired from a wooded space close to to the freeway, or from an overpass.

It is just not but recognized if there are any fatalities, or what number of people have been injured.

In an earlier assertion, Laurel County Sheriff’s Office mentioned that “quite a few individuals” had been shot.

A spokesperson for the University of Kentucky Medical Center in Lexington instructed the BBC’s US information accomplice, CBS News that it had obtained no less than two sufferers from the incident up to now, however there was no phrase on their circumstances.

Trooper Scottie Pennington, a Kentucky State Police spokesperson, urged residents within the space to remain inside.

Members of the general public have been warned to not method the particular person of curiosity.

The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives additionally confirmed it was concerned within the search.

Earlier, Kentucky’s Governor Andy Beshear wrote on social media that legislation enforcement had “shut the interstate down in each instructions” close to to the place the taking pictures occurred.

He mentioned the world needs to be averted, and urged the general public to “pray for everybody concerned”.

London is a small metropolis of about 8,000 residents close to the Daniel Boone National Forest.