Two police officers were killed and three others shot and wounded in an intervention that sparked a shooting in a city in southeast Florida on Tuesday, the FBI said.
The facts took place around 6 a.m. (12 p.m. in France): the agents, acting on a rogatory commission from a court in a case of child abuse, wanted to conduct a search in Sunrise accommodation.
#BREAKING: Several @FBI agents were shot while serving a warrant in Sunrise.
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- Liane Morejon WPLG (@LianeWPLG) February 2, 2021
The shooting then broke out.
The person targeted by the search warrant is dead, federal police said in a statement.
Two injured police officers were hospitalized in stable condition, the FBI added, without mentioning the condition of the third.
Firearms abound in Florida and are easily accessible to perpetrators.
The peninsula, located in the southeast of the United States, has also been the scene in recent years of several particularly deadly shootings.