Two gunmen have been shot dead in Texas at a contest to draw cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed.
The men had opened fire on a security officer outside the competition venue in Garland, a suburb of Dallas.
Police returned fire, killing the pair, and bomb squad officers were called in to search their vehicle as a precaution, authorities said.
The contest, at the Curtis Culwell Center, was organised by the New York-based American Freedom Defense Initiative, which aimed to award $10,000 for the cartoon judged the best.
The gunmen had driven up as the event was due to end.
Officer Joe Harn, a spokesman for the Garland Police Department, said: "Because of the situation of what was going on today and the history of what we've been told has happened at other events like this, we are considering their car (is) possibly containing a bomb."
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