Two staffers working for Virginia congressman Gerry Connolly were injured on Monday after being attacked by a man wielding a baseball bat.

Mr Connolly - a Democratic House representative - said that one of the victims was an intern on her first day on the job.

The attacker is in police custody and both staffers were treated in hospital for non-life threatening injuries.

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