USA: Reno police said they shot to death a man who tried to run over an officer as he attempted to drive into a crowded chicken wing festival.

The Pentagon has revealed that a gunman suspected of killing six people at a Sikh temple in Wisconsin was a former US Army "psychological operations specialist".

Terrified worshippers hid in cupboards and others desperately texted friends outside for help as a man gunned down killed six people in a deadly rampage at a Sikh temple.

At least six people died yesterday when a gunman opened fire at a Sikh temple near Milwaukee.