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Live updates: Dallas protest shooting

Five police officers have been killed after they were shot in Dallas during a Black Lives Matter protest.

Here's what we know so far:

  • Five police officers died and seven were wounded
  • The suspect, Micah Johnson, was killed in a stand-off with police
  • He allegedly said he wanted to kill white police officers
  • The atrocity follows the fatal police shootings of two black men
  • Bomb-making materials, guns and a bullet proof vest were found at Johnson's home
  • Barack Obama condemned the attack as "vicious, calculated and despicable"
  • The US president will visit the scene next week
  • Dallas Police 'received a new threat' against law enforcement on Saturday
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Obama: 'Too many tragedies' like recent police shootings

President Obama said the United States has experienced tragedies like the killing Alton Sterling and Philando Castile "too many times".

Alton Sterling was pinned to the ground and shot in the chest in Louisiana on Tuesday by two police officers, before Philando Castile was shot dead by officers during a traffic stop in Minnesota a day later.

Mr Obama said he couldn't comment on the specific facts of each case, adding that "all of us as Americans should be troubled" by the shootings.

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