A man wanted in connection with the bombing of a Florida mosque has been shot dead after resisting arrest, the FBI said.

Sandlin Matthews Smith, 46, was shot after he waved a weapon at FBI agents and state law enforcement officers as they tried to serve an arrest warrant on him in northwest Oklahoma.

Jeff Wescott, an FBI special agent in Jacksonville, Florida said Smith had been shot in a field at Glass Mountain State Park near Fairview, Oklahoma.

He added that Smith was facing federal charges in connection with the bombing of the Islamic Centre of Northeast Florida in Jacksonville in May 2010. No one was injured by the crude pipe bomb, including 60 worshippers who were inside the centre.

Clayton Simmonds, an agent at the FBI's Oklahoma City office said it was unclear why Smith was in Oklahoma but added that they received a tip off he was in the Fairview area.