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Yahoo
3 days ago
- General
- Yahoo
German police fatally wound man on Czech border as he flees
A fleeing motorist who fired at German police near a border crossing with the Czech Republic was fatally wounded by return fire, police said on Sunday. The officers conducting spot checks stopped the man's car in the Schirnding region on the border on Saturday afternoon when the 47-year-old driver attempted to flee on foot, firing at police as he ran. Officers returned fire, injuring the man fatally. No police officers were injured. The police report did not reveal why the man had been stopped. Police and prosecutors reported later that the man was an Iranian who had lived in the German city of Mannheim for years. "Police are currently assuming that the man was on his way back from a trip to buy drugs in the Czech Republic, as he had a few hundred grams of 'crystal' on him," they said, in an apparent reference to the illegal drug methamphetamine. They provided no information on the man's firearm.
Washington Post
3 days ago
- Politics
- Washington Post
A man opens fire on German police near the Czech border and is shot dead
BERLIN — A man was fatally shot near Germany's border with the Czech Republic after a federal police patrol stopped his car for a check and he fired at officers, police said Sunday. The shooting occurred on a road between Schirnding and Münchenreuth, just inside Germany, on Saturday afternoon. Bavarian police said the driver left his car and fired at the officers, who returned fire and fatally wounded him. He died at the scene.
