One person was killed and another wounded during a highway shootout after an attempt to arrest members of an armed group that occupied a national wildlife refuge in the US state of Oregon.
The FBI said in a statement on Tuesday that one individual "who was a subject of a federal probable cause arrest is deceased".
Ammon Bundy, 40 - the leader of the group that occupied the federal government land for the past three weeks - was among six others arrested.
Al Jazeera's Gabriel Elizondo, who has reported the story from Oregon, said the shootout happened on a highway not far from the refuge.
"It appears the FBI and local police initiated an operation to stop the militiamen," said Elizondo.
He said it was unclear if more group members were inside the refuge, but at most, 15 or 20 people had been holding the site.
"You would suspect that this could lead them to now going into the wildlife refuge to arrest other people," Elizondo said.
Bundy's militia, which has included people from as far away as Arizona and Michigan, and not local farmers from Oregon, seized the headquarters of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge on January 2 as part of a long-running dispute over public lands in the West.
Bundy is the son of Nevada rancher Cliven Bundy, who was involved in a high-profile 2014 standoff with the government over grazing rights.
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