India, Sept. 29 -- At least four people were killed, and several other deaths are likely, as a former US Marine rammed his pickup truck through the front doors of a Mormon church in Michigan on Sunday, opened fire with an assault rifle and deliberately set the chapel ablaze.

Smoke billowed from the church as flames engulfed the entire building.

At least eight others were injured in the shooting. Police officials said that hundreds of people were present in the church when the ex-Marine, Thomas Jacob Sanford, set it on fire.

Two law enforcement officers, one each from the Grand Blanc Township and the Department of Natural Resources, immediately arrived at the scene and engaged the suspect in an exchange of gunfire, shooting him dead in ...