170 bikers charged over deadly Texas shootout

About 170 members of rival motorcycle gangs have been charged with engaging in organised crime following a shootout at a Texas restaurant in which nine people were killed and 18 injured.

The crowd of suspects was so large that authorities opened a convention centre to hold them all before they were arrested.

Sunday’s melee at the Twin Peaks restaurant in Waco drew a broad police response that included placing officers on top of buildings and highway overpasses to watch for other bikers rushing to the scene to retaliate.