Alec Baldwin kills woman by firing prop gun on film set of Rust

Cinematographer Halyna Hutchins airlifted to hospital, where she died, while director Joel Souza also injured

Alec Baldwin is at the centre of a police investigation after shooting and killing his director of photography with a prop gun on the set of a movie in New Mexico in what appeared to be an accidental misfire.

A statement from the Santa Fe sheriff's office said Baldwin, who is acting in and producing the film Rust, had fired the prop gun in an incident on Thursday, which also wounded the movie's director.