{Militiaman killed and another wounded during FBI operation to detain leaders of armed group in Oregon.}<\/p>\n
An FBI operation to arrest leaders of a militia ended with one man dead and another wounded on Tuesday on a highway in the US state of Oregon with seven people from the armed group now in custody.<\/p>\n
Ammon Bundy, 40 – the leader of the militia that occupied a national wildlife refuge on federal land for the past three weeks – was among six others arrested.<\/p>\n
The FBI said in a statement that one individual “who was a subject of a federal probable cause arrest is deceased”.<\/p>\n
Al Jazeera’s Gabriel Elizondo reported the man killed was LaVoy Finicum, the group’s second-in-command. <\/p>\n
He said the shooting happened on a highway not far from the refuge near the city of Burns. “It appears the FBI and local police initiated an operation to stop the militiamen,” he said.<\/p>\n
An unknown number of group members were believed to still be inside the refuge, but at most 15 or 20 people had been holding the site.<\/p>\n
“You would suspect that this could lead them to now going into the wildlife refuge to arrest other people,” Elizondo said.<\/p>\n
Speaking to Al Jazeera’s AJ+ in January, Finicum said he had joined the occupation to defend freedom and he rejected claims the standoff was racially motivated.<\/p>\n
“My heart goes out to anyone who has violence perpretated on them … we welcome any support from any community, freedom has no colour,” Finicum said.<\/p>\n
JJ McNab, a Washington DC-based writer on anti-government movements, said several well-known anti-government figures had reportedly been heading to the refuge.<\/p>\n
“I think that a lot of people were on the way to join the group. Some of names recently shown up … are a little bit scary. They idolise people like Timothy McVeigh,” McNab told Al Jazeera. <\/p>\n
She said her concern now was for children still possibly inside the refuge and a further escalation of violence.<\/p>\n
Bundy’s militia, which has included people from as far away as Arizona and Michigan, seized the headquarters of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge on January 2 as part of a long-running dispute over public lands in the western United States.<\/p>\n
Bundy is the son of Nevada rancher Cliven Bundy, who was involved in a high-profile 2014 standoff with the government over grazing rights.<\/p>\n
“LaVoy Finicum was shot and murdered in cold blood today in Burns Oregon \u2026 He had his hands up and was shot three times,” Cliven Bundy said in a Facebook post. <\/p>\n
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