Eight people have been injured in a mass shooting at a south Minneapolis homeless encampment that the city has been attempting to shut down.

Gunfire erupted at the encampment at around 10 p.m. and sparked a major emergency response to East Lake Street and 28th Avenue South.

Five men and three women were injured, with two of the victims – a man and a woman – suffering life-threatening gunshot wounds to the head.

Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O'Hara said the evidence indicates that gunfire was exchanged by at least two people, with around 30 shell casings found at the scene.

It marked the second mass shooting in Minneapolis on Monday alone, with five people wounded in an afternoon incident near the I-35W and Lake Street Transit Station, about two miles away from the shooting on Monday e

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