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4 Houston Police Officers Shot, Another Injured In Drug Raid

Police were serving a search warrant on a house where residents were suspected of selling heroin. Two suspects were found dead after a gun fight.
Law enforcement personnel work at the scene of a shooting where four police officers were shot and a fifth injured after a drug bust in Houston, Texas.

Four Houston police officers were shot and wounded, and a fifth was injured, in a drug bust gone awry in a southeast Houston neighborhood Monday afternoon.

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