Three US police officers shot dead

Baton Rouge: Three US police officers shot dead

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Three police officers have been killed and three injured in a shooting in the southern US city of Baton Rouge.

A suspect shot dead at the scene was thought to be the only gunman involved, police said. Reports earlier suggested there was more than one gunman.

President Barack Obama said nothing justified attacks on police officers.

It is not clear what the motive is, or whether there is any link to the killing by police of a black man in the city nearly two weeks ago.

The shooting of Alton Sterling and another killing of a black man in Minnesota, led to widespread protests across the US.

It also triggered a revenge attack by a black army veteran who shot dead five officers in the city of Dallas.

Law enforcement officers have converged on a house in Kansas City, Missouri, that is listed for a man named Gavin Long - the man US media named earlier as the suspect in Sunday's Baton Rouge shootings.  Read More >>

Source: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-36820782