Three police die in Kentucky shooting while serving domestic violence warrant

Officers encountered pure hell' at scene, sheriff says, before man taken into custody after hours-long standoff

Three law enforcement officers were killed and five others wounded in eastern Kentucky when a man with a rifle opened fire on police attempting to serve a warrant, authorities said.

An emergency management official was also injured and a police dog was killed during the confrontation at a home in Allen, a small town in the hills of Appalachia.