Washington police have linked yesterday’s shooting of a bus driver to the sniper.

WHEN it hit him, the .223-calibre bullet was moving about 2,000mph, and as it entered his body, it splintered.

An FBI terrorism analyst has been identified as the ninth person killed by the Washington-area sniper, shot in the head in an attack investigators say has yielded the most detailed clues yet.

Police hunting a sniper who has terrorised the Washington area were today searching for a white van spotted leaving the scene of a seventh murder.

Police were today trying to determine whether a man shot dead while pumping petrol in Virginia was the latest victim of the sniper who has terrorised the Washington area for a week.

ANXIOUS parents accompanied their children to school or kept them at home on Tuesday, a day after a sniper linked to the murder of six adults critically wounded a school pupil.

Parents in the suburbs around Washington anguished over their children’s safety today after a sniper, who murdered six adults last week, critically wounded a schoolboy.

A 13-year-old boy was fighting for his life today, after the Washington-area sniper struck as the boy’s aunt dropped him off at a Maryland school.

Police in Washington DC are working on a detailed profile of a suspected sniper believed to have gunned down six people in the city suburbs.

A bus terminal in Philadelphia was evacuated for several hours after a station employee found an unclaimed suitcase containing a military-grade plastic explosive and 1,000ft of blasting cord.

An explosive device went off at the back door of a US medical clinic where a doctor performed abortions.