Four dead, eight injured in US Mormon church shooting

A man who crashed his vehicle through the front doors of a Mormon church in Michigan opened fire with an assault rifle and set the church ablaze, killing at least four people and wounding at least eight others before dying in a shootout with police, officials said.

Police said the perpetrator deliberately set fire to the church, which was engulfed in flames and billowing smoke.

Two of the shooting victims died and eight others were hospitalised, officials said.

Several hours after the shooting, police reported finding at least two more bodies in the charred remains of the church, which had not yet been cleared and may contain other victims.