Two New York City police officers responding to a robbery in the Bronx have been shot and wounded.
The officers were taken to a Bronx hospital with non-life threatening injuries. One officer was wounded in the arm, and the other was struck in the back, police said.
Deputy Chief Kim Royster, commanding officer of the public affairs unit, said the officers were not targeted by the gunman - unlike two officers shot to death about two weeks ago in their patrol car in Brooklyn.
Royster said a weapon was recovered but it wasn't clear whether it belonged to the suspects.
The shooting happened just after 10.30pm local time Monday (Tuesday AEDT).
Officers Rafael Ramos and Wenjian Liu were gunned down in their patrol car on December 20 by a man who vowed online to kill "pigs." The man opened fire, then ran into a subway where he shot himself to death.
Ramos was buried on December 27 and Liu was buried on Sunday.
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