Shooting in US city of Minneapolis kills 3, including police officer

Several people were struck by gunfire that killed as many as three, including a police officer and a suspect, in the US city of Minneapolis on May 30, city authorities said, Report informs referring to Reuters.

Three others including another police officer and a firefighter were also injured at the scene, authorities added. Local media earlier said that as many as four were killed by the gunfire.

The motive behind the attack is still under investigation, authorities said.

The Minneapolis Police Department earlier said on social media that officers were "responding to an active incident" in which six people, two of them police officers, were "reported injured."

"This continues to be a fluid situation," the police department said, urging members of the public to avoid an area of the Whittier neighborhood south of downtown Minneapolis, the most populous city and capitol of the state of Minnesota.

The neighborhood is home to the Minneapolis Institute of Art and the Minneapolis College of Art and Design.

Minneapolis television station KMSP, a Fox broadcast affiliate, earlier reported that six people had been shot, including two police officers and four civilians, and that one officer and two other people were dead. The station cited unnamed law enforcement sources.

CBS affiliate WCCO-TV said the suspected shooter was also killed and a second police officer was critically wounded.