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| Munich police officer seriously injured in metro station shooting | Munich police officer seriously injured in metro station shooting |
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| Police in German city arrest suspect who took gun from officer and shot her in head in non-terrorism-related incident | |
| Associated Press in Berlin | |
| Tue 13 Jun 2017 10.05 BST | |
| First published on Tue 13 Jun 2017 09.13 BST | |
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| A police officer has been shot in the head at a Munich metro station after a man grabbed her service pistol and opened fire, also injuring two bystanders. | A police officer has been shot in the head at a Munich metro station after a man grabbed her service pistol and opened fire, also injuring two bystanders. |
| The officer’s injuries were considered life-threatening, while those to the two bystanders shot at the Unterfoehring station were less serious, the Munich police spokesman Marcus da Gloria Martins said. | The officer’s injuries were considered life-threatening, while those to the two bystanders shot at the Unterfoehring station were less serious, the Munich police spokesman Marcus da Gloria Martins said. |
| The suspect was seriously injured after being shot by police, he said. | The suspect was seriously injured after being shot by police, he said. |
| “There was one suspect and we’ve got him,” Da Gloria Martins told reporters at the scene. | “There was one suspect and we’ve got him,” Da Gloria Martins told reporters at the scene. |
| Authorities did not believe the incident was terrorism-related, and that the suspect appeared to have acted out of “personal” reasons and not with political or religious motivations, Da Gloria Martins said. | Authorities did not believe the incident was terrorism-related, and that the suspect appeared to have acted out of “personal” reasons and not with political or religious motivations, Da Gloria Martins said. |
| Police had been called to the subway station after receiving reports of an altercation between passengers on a train. When officers arrived the suspect tried to push them on to the tracks, Da Gloria Martins said. | Police had been called to the subway station after receiving reports of an altercation between passengers on a train. When officers arrived the suspect tried to push them on to the tracks, Da Gloria Martins said. |
| The suspect then grabbed the officer’s gun and fired several shots before he was shot himself and taken into custody. | The suspect then grabbed the officer’s gun and fired several shots before he was shot himself and taken into custody. |
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