WASHINGTON: Two police officers in the US state of Iowa were shot dead in separate attacks on Wednesday, with both "ambushed" as they sat in their cars, authorities said.

"It doesn't look like there was any interaction between these officers, and whoever the coward is... shot them as they sat in their cars," Des Moines Police Sergeant Paul Parizek said in an early morning news conference.

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