Two officers have been shot and injured with "severe" injuries on the city's north side, according to the police union.

Two Milwaukee police officers were shot and have been critically injured after responding to a call for a person with a weapon late Thursday, police said.

A manhunt is underway after two police officers were shot in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, on Thursday night. The officers were responding to a shots-fired call when someone fired shots from an alley near 24th and Garfield.