Cartagena, Colombia (CNN) -- Police dressed in black burst through a door, opening fire and rushing toward a man crouched in the corner.

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Police say Myers sauntered into a barbershop Wednesday, coolly asked if the man cutting hair remembered him and then opened fire with a shotgun, the first shots in a burst of violence that would leave four dead, two critically wounded and people in this small village aching to find out what set the gunman off.

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Mid and West Wales Fire Service said about 60 properties in Solva were threatened by a burst river.

BBC: Wales weather: Flooding hits west, snow in the north

In all three cases fire roared up the sides of the building as individual panels ignited and burst into flame.

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Among the areas badly hit by flooding was Solva in Pembrokeshire, where the fire service said about 60 properties were either flooded or threatened by a burst river.

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