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1st LD-Writethru: Obama condemns attack on Baton Rouge police officers

Xinhua, July 18, 2016 Adjust font size:

U.S. President Barack Obama on Sunday strongly condemns the attack on police officers in Baton Rouge that killed three police officers and wounded three others.

"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," Obama said in a statement.

"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," said Obama.

Obama added that he has offered the "full support of the federal government" to Louisiana's governor, Baton Rouge's mayor and local law enforcement.

Three police officers were killed, several others injured on Sunday in a shooting incident in Baton Rouge, the capital city of the U.S. state of Louisiana.

This is the second serious shooting incident that killed police officers in U.S. in less than two weeks after a gunman killed five police officers and hurt seven others in Dallas, a city in the northern part of the U.S. state of Texas. Enditem