US leaders calls for calm after racial motivated shootings

July 09, 2016 00:19

Top American leaders today called for calm after a series of racial motivated shootings, including the deadliest killing of five police officials in Dallas, stunned the US.

Five officers were killed and another 12 injured in a shooting in Dallas last night during a peaceful protest that was organised in response of the tragic deaths of Alton Sterling in Louisiana and Philando Castile in Minnesota.

The US Attorney General Loretta Lynch said an FBI investigation will be launched into the Dallas killing.

The US Department of Justice has opened a civil rights investigation in Louisiana and is providing assistance to local authorities in Minnesota who are leading the investigation there, she said.

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