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Chaos grips Dallas as snipers strike racism bias protest

Police continue to exchange gunfire with a suspect holed up in a downtown garage hours after the shooting started.

By :  sadhguru jaggi vasudev
Update: 2016-07-08 07:02 GMT
Four police officers were killed and seven others wounded by snipers in chaotic scenes in Dallas during a protest against police shootings of black men, with a suspect warning that bombs were planted throughout the city center.
TV cameras showed the search for the gunman stretched throughout downtown, an area of hotels, restaurants, businesses and some residential apartments.
TV cameras showed the search for the gunman stretched throughout downtown, an area of hotels, restaurants, businesses and some residential apartments.
Officers with guns drawn were running near and into the parking garage as police searched for the shooter.
Scores of police and security officers were on hand. Police and others hunched behind cars outside a parking garage.
The statement said three officers are deceased, two are in surgery and three are in critical condition.
The gunfire broke out around 8:45 p.m. Thursday while hundreds of people were gathered to protest fatal police shootings this week in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, and suburban St. Paul, Minnesota.
Police were continuing to exchange gunfire with a suspect holed up in a downtown garage hours after the shooting started.
City Police Chief David Brown said two snipers shot at police officers from elevated positions during the protest/rally.' A civilian was also wounded.
Police continue to exchange gunfire with a suspect holed up in a downtown garage hours after the shooting started.

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