One person was killed and another wounded during a highway shootout after an attempt to arrest members of an armed group that occupied a national wildlife refuge in the US state of Oregon.
The FBI said in a statement on Tuesday that one individual “who was a subject of a federal probable cause arrest is deceased”, the Associated Press reported.
Ammon Bundy, 40 – the leader of the group that occupied the federal government land for the past three weeks – was reportedly arrested, Al Jazeera’s Deb Jordan reported from the scene. Five other members of the group were also arrested.
“This happened on a highway not far from where the refuge is. It appears the FBI and local police initiated an operation to stop the militiamen,” said Al Jazeera’s Gabriel Elizondo, who has reported the story from Oregon.
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Source: Al Jazeera
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