Police said they had not determined the identity of the two gunmen or whether they were linked to critics of the event Texas police shot dead two gunmen who opened fire on Sunday outside an exhibit of caricatures of the Prophet Mohammed that was organised by an anti-Islamic group and billed as a free-speech event.The shooting in a Dallas suburb was an echo of past attacks or threats in other Western countries against art depicting the Prophet Mohammed. In January, gunmen killed 12 people in the Paris offices of French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo in revenge for its cartoons.Sunday's attack took place at about 7 pm in a parking lot of the Curtis Culwell Center, an indoor arena in Garland, northeast of Dallas. Geert Wilders, a polarising Dutch politician and anti-Islamic campaigner who is on an al-Qaeda hit list, was among the speakers at the event.Police said they had not determined the identity of the two gunmen or whether they were linked to critics of the event who had branded...
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