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One agent was shot in the shoulder and the other was shot in
the leg while assisting local police in executing an arrest
warrant, FBI spokeswoman Rebecca Wu said in a brief statement.
Their injuries were not life-threatening.
"The incident is not directly related to the Ferguson protests,"
Wu said, but did not elaborate further.
Some 2,000 National Guard troops helped ward off a second night
of rampant arson and looting in suburban St. Louis after a grand
jury declined to indict a white policeman in the fatal shooting
of an unarmed black teenager, and sympathy protests spread to
several U.S. cities.
The Wednesday morning incident involving the FBI agents followed
hours after a clash between police and protesters in Ferguson.
Despite a beefed-up military presence in Ferguson, a police car
was torched near City Hall as darkness fell, and police fired
smoke bombs and tear gas to scatter protesters.
(Reporting by Edward McAllister in Ferguson; Additional
reporting and writing by Eric M. Johnson from Seattle Editing by
W Simon)
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