2 FBI agents killed while executing search warrant in Florida

Two FBI agents were shot and killed Tuesday morning while executing a search warrant, the bureau announced.

A team of agents and other law enforcement authorities went to a Sunrise, Florida, apartment to serve a federal court-ordered warrant in a "violent crimes against children case," the FBI said in a statement. It's unclear just how the shooting took place, but two of the officers were killed in what the FBI called an "officer-involved shooting," and three more were injured. Two of those injured were taken to a hospital in stable condition.

The incident occurred around 6 a.m. Tuesday morning, when agents found man being investigated had apparently barricaded himself in the apartment, officials told The New York Times. The suspect also died, but it's unclear how.

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Tuesday's shooting was among the deadliest in FBI history, matching a time in 1994 when two agents were killed and another injured when a man entered the bureau's Washington, D.C. headquarters, the Times reports. An FBI agent was last fatally shot while on duty in 2008.