Three US police ******rs shot dead in Louisiana
 

Obama condemns shooting as a ‘cowardly’ act

WASHINGTON: Three police ******rs were killed and three injured in a shooting in Baton Rouge, Louisiana on Sunday, with at least two suspects at large, police said.

"Three law enforcement (******rs) are confirmed dead, three others injured," the East Baton Rouge sheriff’s ****** said in a statement. "One suspect is dead, law enforcement believes two others may be at large." The shooting took place along a highway around 9:00 am (1400 GMT), the statement added. It appears the incident began before police ******rs were at the scene.

"It’s my understanding that they (the ******rs) had responded to an initial shooting incident," Casey Rayborn Hicks, public affairs ******r for the sheriff’s ******, told local WAFB television. Witness Brady Vancel told the station that he saw what may have been gang members shooting at each other before police arrived.

"This has **thing to do with any situation," he said, referring to controversies surrounding a ****** of high-profile shootings involving police that have shocked the country over the last several weeks.

A gunman killed five police ******rs in Dallas earlier this month during a demonstration triggered by the fatal police shooting of two African-American men whose dying moments were captured in shocking video footage that went viral online. One of those killed was Alton Sterling, shot by a police ******r in Baton Rouge two days before the Dallas attack.

President Barack Obama condemned shooting as a "cowardly" act. "For the second time in two weeks, police ******rs who put their lives on the line for ours every day were doing their job when they were killed in a cowardly and reprehensible assault," Obama said in a statement. "These are attacks on public servants, on the rule of law and on civilized society, and they have to stop."



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