NSA shooting: One dead and at least two injured

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One person is dead and at least two people are injured after a shooting at a gate to the US National Security Agency headquarters.

An unnamed official told the Associated Press that gunfire broke out after a car tried to ram the gate to the military campus near Washington DC.

Live aerial footage showed two vehicles - one of which was a police vehicle - with damage near the security gate.

Two people were taken to hospital, according to several media reports.

Around 40,000 people work at the facility inside the campus of Fort Meade, Maryland.

NBC4 has a photo of a uniformed man being put into an ambulance.

Exactly what happened is not clear, and multiple requests for information sent to the NSA have not yet been returned. Calls to the NSA were answered, but no information was provided.

Helicopter footage showed two cars - one a police vehicle and the other a black vehicle with no insignia - in a junction that had been roped off near the security gates.

The cars appear to have collided and debris is strewn across the intersection. A white cloth appears to cover something beside the black vehicle.

Several police officers appear to be at the scene

The NSA is headquartered at Fort Meade, Maryland, just a few miles outside of Washington

The NSA is a clandestine intelligence agency, charged with collecting and analysing electronic signals for US intelligence and counterintelligence purposes. The agency rose to prominence after Edward Snowden leaked thousands of the agency's documents in the Spring of 2013.

Local emergency responders say that the NSA police force is handling the incident, and local agencies are providing support.

Early this month the FBI arrested a man for firing shots that damaged the building from a nearby highway.