Two Ferguson policeman have been released from hospital after suffering gunshot wounds in the worst outbreak of violence since protests erupted in the St. Louis suburb last summer.
One of the officers was shot just below the eye the other in the shoulder.
It happened overnight when gunfire broke out during protests outside the Ferguson Police Department.
Our US correspondent Kevin McAleese reports
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