A police officer dead, three injured after shootings in Florida

A police officer was shot dead and three others were injured on Saturday in two separate shooting incidents in the cities of Kissimmee and Jacksonville, in the southeastern U.S. state of Florida, according to reports.

According to a statement by Police Chief Jeff O’Dell, the police officers were shot as they were carrying out an operation in Kissimmee, which killed one officer and gravely injured another.

Two other police officers were injured in a separate shooting incident in the city of Jacksonville, according to O’Dell who pointed that three people were also wounded in the armed attack, noting that that the police are currently searching for the perpetrator