A US gunman ambushed and shot dead two firemen responding to a forest fire in northern Idaho yesterday, wounding one other during an hours-long incident before the suspect was found dead, the Kootenai County Sheriff’s Office said.
Law enforcement officers and firemen took sniper fire during the incident at Canfield Mountain, a nature zone popular with hikers near Coeur d’Alene, about 420km east of Seattle, Sheriff Bob Norris said. “We do believe that the suspect started the fire,” Norris said.