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Five police officers were killed and six injured, some of them critically, by the sniper fire during protests against the shooting of black men by police in Dallas in the United States. Dallas Police Chief David Brown said three suspects are in custody but are refusing to co-operate with police.
The officers were shot during a demonstration protesting the police shootings in Minnesota and Louisiana this week.
The police believe four suspects coordinated the attack with rifles and positioned themselves in strategic locations near the route the protesters planned to take.
The suspect who was involved in a stand-off with police in a Dallas parking garage is now dead, according to multiple US media reports. However, police have not confirmed the death. He was one of four suspects believed to have launched a co-ordinated attack to kill Dallas police officers. The other three suspects are all in custody.
The Dallas protests were among several held across the US over the police use of lethal force against African Americans.
Philando Castile was shot dead at a traffic stop in St Paul, Minnesota , on Wednesday, while Alton Sterling was killed by police a day earlier in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
Both incidents were captured on video, reigniting what has become a national debate.
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