CNN) -- Three people were shot, two fatally, at a Tallahassee, Florida, federal detention center Wednesday as federal agents went to arrest six corrections officers, authorities said.
The six guards were being arrested in an investigation into allegations that guards were trading drugs for sex with female inmates, federal law enforcement sources said.
One of those being arrested opened fire, said Jeff Westcott, spokesman for the FBI's Jacksonville bureau.
Federal agents returned fire, killing the suspect, Westcott said. An agent with the Department of Justice's Office of Inspector General died in the shootout, he said. (Watch what may have prompted the gunfight -- 1:48)
A Bureau of Prisons official was wounded.
The victims' identities and details of the arrest warrants were not released.
The shooting occurred about 7:45 a.m. at a federal detention facility in Tallahassee. (See facility, map)
The Tallahassee facility holds mainly women, but includes an area holding men awaiting trial.
The facility was put on lockdown after the shooting, officials said.
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