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Two police officers in Ferguson, a Missouri town hit by riots over the killing of an unarmed black teenager last year, have been hit by gunfire. | Two police officers in Ferguson, a Missouri town hit by riots over the killing of an unarmed black teenager last year, have been hit by gunfire. |
One officer was shot in the face and one in the shoulder, St Louis County police chief Jon Belmar said. | |
Both suffered "very serious gunshot injuries", he said. | |
The incident followed the resignation of Ferguson's police chief, after a federal report alleged widespread racial bias in his department. | |
Mr Belmar said three shots had been fired shortly after midnight, as the protest crowd was starting to break up. | |
He said he was assuming that "these shots were directed at my police officers", rather than the officers being hit by stray bullets. |