One dead after car rams NSA HQ gates

One man has been killed and another was seriously wounded after a shooting at a gate to the US National Security Agency headquarters near Washington.

NSA officers fired on a vehicle that refused to follow commands and charged a police vehicle blocking the road.

An unnamed official told the Associated Press that the men inside the car were dressed in women's clothing.

One of the car's occupants died on the scene, while the other was injured and taken to a local hospital.

The incident began shortly after 9:00pm local time, when at least two people attempted to drive the vehicle into the National Security Agency section of the Fort Meade facility.

The large Fort Meade campus, located about 30 minutes outside Washington, is home to about 40,000 military and civilian personnel, including many members of employees' family.

The NSA, in a rare public statement, said that the driver refused to obey an NSA police officer's commands to exit the secure area.

The vehicle charged toward the NSA vehicle, which it smashed into as police fired on it, the statement said.

The statement does not mention anyone other than NSA police firing a weapon.