Security officer dead after Moscow shooting

An officer in the Russian security agency has been killed and five others injured following a shooting near its Moscow headquarters.

The incident happened in a building behind the Federal Security Service's (FSB) offices at Lubyanka Square.

The lone shooter was "neutralised", according to officials, a term normally used when a person has been killed.

The FSB is the main successor agency to the KGB.

President Putin’s spokesman Dmitry Peskov told state news agency Tass that Vladimir Putin has been informed about the incident.

Tass state media report five people have been injured according to the Russian ministry of health.

Roads around the FSB headquarters near where the shooting took place have been closed.

Tass state media report that the attacker was alone according to the FSB.