An FBI operation to arrest leaders of a militia
ended with one man dead and another wounded
on Tuesday on a highway in the US state of
Oregon with seven people from the armed group
now in custody.
Ammon Bundy, 40 - the leader of the militia that
occupied a national wildlife refuge on federal land
for the past three weeks - was among six others
arrested.
The FBI said in a statement that one individual
"who was a subject of a federal probable cause
arrest is deceased".
Al Jazeera's Gabriel Elizondo reported the man
killed was LaVoy Finicum, the group's second-in-
command.
He said the shooting happened on a highway not
far from the refuge near the city of Burns. "It
appears the FBI and local police initiated an
operation to stop the militiamen," he said.
An unknown number of group members were
believed to still be inside the refuge, but at most
15 or 20 people had been holding the site.
"You would suspect that this could lead them to
now going into the wildlife refuge to arrest other
people," Elizondo said.
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