Lockdown lifted at Capitol building after gunshots fired; several injured
The US Capitol was placed on security lockdown on Thursday after what senators and journalists said were shots fired outside Washington's seat of Congress.
Emergency vehicles converged on the scene, focused on the north side of the iconic landmark, where an AFP photographer saw visitors scattering and ducking for cover.
Senator Sherrod Brown told AFP he had been walking with a colleague from a nearby senatorial annex when he had heard shots and been forced to take cover behind an SUV.
Outside the Dirksen office building, which houses senators' offices, staff members not sent home by the US government shutdown could be seen taking cover behind trees and vehicles.
