Dhaka, April 30 -- Eight law officers were shot on Monday, four fatally, as a US Marshals fugitive task force tried to serve a warrant in Charlotte in North Carolina, the police said, in one of the deadliest days for law enforcement in recent years.

The suspect they were seeking was also killed, New York Times reports quoting the police.

Around 1:30 pm, members of the task force went to the 5000 block of Galway Drive to serve a warrant on a person for being a felon in possession of a firearm, Johnny Jennings, the chief of police of the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department, said at a news conference on Monday evening.

When they approached the person, the shooter fired at them, the police said. The officers returned fire and struck th...