DHAKA: Three people have died after a man traded gunfire with police from inside a birth control clinic in the US city of Colorado Springs, police say.

One police officer and two civilians were killed, Mayor John Suthers said. Several other people were injured, reports the BBC.

A male suspect was taken into custody after a stand-off with police lasting hours at the Planned Parenthood clinic.

A number of people were trapped inside the clinic while the stand-off with police took place.

Authorities say the motive for the incident is unclear.

Officials said earlier that 11 people, five of them police officers, had been wounded but it is not clear if the fatalities came from that number.

All roads around the area were closed, the city's police said in a tweet.

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