At least six people, including one police officer and two suspected gunmen, were killed in New Jersey in an hours-long standoff, according to police.

Iran Press/ America: Six people, including a police officer and two suspected gunmen, were killed in an hours-long shootout.

The incident unfolded on Tuesday afternoon near a cemetery and a kosher grocery store in Jersey City, New Jersey, The Reuters cited police as saying.

The two suspects killed acted alone, Jersey City Police Chief Michael Kelly told a news conference hours later in the state’s second-largest city.

The two gunmen and three civilian victims were pronounced dead inside the JC Kosher Supermarket. The slain police detective was fatally wounded near a cemetery about a mile away where the shooting started when he tried to intercept one of the suspects.

There was no immediate evidence the bloodshed was a hate crime or terror-related, Kelly told reporters.

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