DHAKA: Bomb-making material, rifles, ammunition and a combat journal have been recovered from the house of the suspect in the Dallas shootings.

Five police officers were killed and seven wounded in a hail of gunfire during a protest on Thursday against the shooting of black men by police.

The suspect, 25-year-old Micah Johnson, died after a long stand-off with police in central Dallas, BBC reports on Saturday (July 9).

Mayor Mike Rawlings said that officials believed he was ‘the lone shooter’.

‘We believe now the city is safe,’ the city mayor said this at a news conference late on Friday.

The protest in Dallas took place after this week's deaths of Philando Castile in Minnesota and Alton Sterling in Louisiana.

Officials said on Friday that a number of gun attacks on police officers and civilians had occurred in the aftermath of the deaths in Minnesota and Louisiana.

BDST: 1444 HRS, July 9, 2016
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