Cops Attacked in 3 More States, Bomb Material in Dallas Suspect Home

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The morning after five police officers were fatally shot in Dallas, Texas, police officers were ambushed and shot in the St. Louis suburb of Ballwin, Missouri and Valdosta, Georgia. Authorities in Tennessee said Thursday's shooting also targeted cops.

Relatively, bomb-making material, rifles, ammunition and a combat journal have been found at the home of the suspect in the Dallas shootings, officials say.

Police in Dallas further added that the bomb-making material was found when they searched the home in the suburb of Mesquite where Micah Johnson lived with his mother.

The suspect, 25-year-old Micah Johnson, died after a long stand-off with police in central Dallas.

Johnson was killed by remotely detonated explosives that were sent into a car park where he had taken refuge after the shootings.

It was on Thursday that five police officers were killed and seven wounded in a hail of gunfire during a protest against the shooting of black men by police.

The protest took place after this week's deaths of Philando Castile in Minnesota and Alton Sterling in Louisiana.

In this regard, President Barack Obama, who is attending a NATO summit in Poland, called the Dallas killings a "vicious, calculated and despicable attack on law enforcement", and ordered all flags on public buildings to be flown at half-mast.

Obama will visit Dallas early next week, cutting short the Spanish part of his European trip, the White House said.

Source: News Agencies, Edited by website team