A gunman has killed six people in drive-by shootings in the Californian city of Santa Barbara, Friday night.

The shootings took place near the University of California-Santa Barbara, where two-thirds of the residents are students, the BBC reports.

Seven more people were wounded late on Friday in the town of Isla Vista near the campus of the University.

The shootings occurred at several sites in the Isla Vista neighborhood, and there were nine crime scenes, according to the police reports.

The suspected gunman was found dead in his car with a bullet wound to the head. It is to be found whether the wound was self-inflicted, police said.

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