Maine police widen search for gunman after 18 killed at bowling alley and bar

A police officer walks along a rural road during a manhunt in Maine (Robert F. Bukaty/AP)

US police have searched in forests, waterways and small towns for an Army reservist who they say killed 18 people and wounded 13 in a mass shooting at a bowling alley and a bar in Maine.

Schools, doctors’ surgeries and shops closed and people stayed behind locked doors in cities as far as 50 miles from the scenes of Wednesday night’s shootings in Lewiston.