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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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Several people have been injured, including a police officer, in a shooting at a Munich metro station. 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.
Munich police said in a tweet that the police officer’s injuries were serious. The suspect was also injured and is in custody. 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 shooting occurred during a morning police check at the Unterfoehring metro station, the Munich police spokesman Michael Riehlein said. The suspect was seriously injured after being shot by police, he said.
He had no further details, but Munich’s Merkur newspaper reported that witnesses said the suspect took a police officer’s pistol and shot her, and also injured others at the scene. “There was one suspect and we’ve got him,” Da Gloria Martins told reporters at the scene.
Riehlein said the area had been secured and there was no danger to the public. 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.
The suspect then grabbed the officer’s gun and fired several shots before he was shot himself and taken into custody.