US border patrol agent fatally shot in Vermont south of Canadian border

Cars are backed up at the US-Canada border in Stanstead, Quebec, after a shooting involving a US Border Patrol agent (Chloe Jones/AP)

A US Border Patrol agent was fatally shot on Monday in northern Vermont south of the Canadian border, authorities said.

The death was confirmed by the FBI and Benjamine Huffman, acting secretary of the Department of Homeland Security in Washington.