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(Reuters) - Two members of the U.S. Coast Guard were shot dead at an air base on Kodiak Island off Alaska, prompting an investigation by the FBI and a lockdown of the base and nearby schools, officials said on Thursday.
The Guardsmen were found fatally shot on Thursday at a communications center of the Coast Guard Base Kodiak, about 250 miles (400 km( southwest of Anchorage. Authorities were looking for a potential suspect who might be at large, the Coast Guard said.
FBI agents will direct the investigation, which is standard at a federal facility, FBI spokesman Eric Gonzalez said in Anchorage. He said there was "no indication that this is related to any kind of terrorist act."
Two Coast Guard members shot dead at Alaska base | Reuters
Wow - I hadn't heard a peep about this from US news sources yet - too busy focusing on N Korea I guess.