In a second such incident within a period of two weeks, a gunman killed three Police officers and injured three others in the southern US city of Baton Rouge.

The suspect was shot dead at the scene. The motive behind the shooting was not known, but it comes  amid spiralling tensions across the city. Nearly two weeks ago, the shooting of Alton Sterling and another killing of a black man in Minnesota, led to widespread protests across the United States. The Officials said, the city was on high alert.

Casey Rayborn Hicks, a spokeswoman for the East Baton Rouge Parish Sheriff’s Office, said that, “It’s my understanding that they (the officers) had responded to an initial shooting incident.”  

President Barack Obama said that, the attacks on police officers not justified anything and condemns as a “cowardly” shooting.

“For the second time in two weeks, police officers 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,” Mr. 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,” Obama said.

“And make no mistake justice will be done. We may not yet know the motives for this attack, but I want to be clear: there is no justification for violence against law enforcement. None,” president Obama said.

Reacting to the shootings,the presumptive Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump posted on his Twitter and Facebook pages that, “We grieve for the officers killed in Baton Rouge today.”

“How many law enforcement and people have to die because of a lack of leadership in our country? We demand law and order,” he said.

Louisiana Governor John Bel Edwards called Baton Rouge shooting an “unspeakable and unjustified attack on all of us“.

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- Nandini