The Pentagon was urgently closed due to a shooting in the subway station district

Shots were fired near the entrance to the Pentagon on Tuesday morning., that caused several injured. The facility, the headquarters of the United States Armed Forces, was temporarily closed.

The Arlington County Fire Department reported that there were “several patients”but it was not immediately clear whether they had been shot and the extent of their injuries was unknown.

A policeman was among the woundedaccording to two law enforcement officials, who requested anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss the investigation publicly.

The incident occurred in a Metro bus platform that is part of the Pentagon Transit Center, the Pentagon Protection Force Protection Agency tweeted. The facility is steps from the Pentagon Building, located in Arlington County, Virginia, across the Potomac River from Washington, DC

A journalist from Associated Press near building heard several shots, then a break, then at least one more shot.

Another journalist from PA he heard the police shout “gunman”.

A Pentagon announcement said the facility was closed due to “police activity.” The agency responsible for building security, the Pentagon Force Protection Agency, tweeted shortly before noon that the scene of the incident was safe. the the closure has been lifted with the exception of the area around the crime scene.

Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin and the general Marc Milley, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, were at the White House meeting with President Joe biden, at the time of filming.

In 2010, two officers from the Pentagon’s Force Protection Agency were injured when a gunman approached them at a security checkpoint. The officers, who survived, retaliated, fatally injuring the gunman, identified as John Patrick Bedell.

(With AP information)