DHAKA: A black teenager has been shot dead by police in St Louis of USA.

It is near where Michael Brown was killed in August triggering national protests.

St Louis County police said the man who was shot had pulled a gun at a petrol station and pointed it at an officer, reports the BBC.

A crowd of protesters was at the scene in Berkeley, Missouri, which has been sealed off by police.

Berkeley is about two miles from the suburb of Ferguson, where 18-year-old Michael Brown was shot dead.

The victim of the Berkeley shooting was named as Antonio Martin, 18, by local media citing his mother.

Police spokesman Sgt Brian Schellman said in a statement that an officer had been conducting a routine check at a petrol station on Tuesday evening when he saw two men and approached them.

BDST: 1646 HRS, DEC 24, 2014