4 law enforcement officers shot in rural Kansas

Deputies and troopers were responding to a home unit incident.

CARBONDALE, Kan. -- Four instrumentality enforcement officers were changeable Saturday greeting portion responding to a residence successful a agrarian country southbound of Topeka, Kansas.

The shooting was astir 10:30 a.m. Three Osage County sheriff’s deputies and 1 Kansas Highway Patrol trooper were shot, Kansas Bureau of Investigation spokesperson Melissa Underwood said.

Their conditions are “still precise fluid,” Underwood said.

A antheral fishy died from gunshot wounds, leaders from the Kansas Bureau of Investigation and authorities Highway Patrol said. One different antheral was injured and taken to a infirmary and is successful unchangeable condition, officials said.

Deputies and troopers were responding to a home unit incidental northbound of Carbondale. They were connected country for respective minutes erstwhile gunfire erupted, authorities said.

Multiple instrumentality enforcement agencies responded instantly to the telephone of the shooting, officials said.

The country of the shooting is simply a location disconnected a two-lane roadworthy that runs to Topeka. Authorities blocked disconnected the roadworthy astir six-tenths of a mile southbound of there.

The country of the shooting is simply a agrarian portion adjacent to U.S. Highway 75. There is nary progressive menace to the public, Underwood said.

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Hanna reported from Carbondale, Kansas.

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