Maine residents stay indoors as hunt for mass shooting suspect goes on

Police are still hunting for the gunman (AP)

Shocked and fearful Maine residents have kept to their homes for a second night amid the hunt for Robert Card, an army reservist authorities say shot 18 people dead at a bowling alley and a bar in the worst mass killing in the US state’s history.

Much of Thursday’s search by hundreds of heavily armed police and FBI agents focused on a property belonging to one of Card’s relatives in rural Bowdoin, where authorities surrounded a home for several hours.