A man was killed in a shootout with German police on the German-Czech border in Bavaria on Saturday afternoon, reported Radio Prague International.
The fleeing motorist who fired at German police near a border crossing was fatally wounded by return fire, reported German news agency dpa, quoting police 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.
- Man killed
- Police shootout
- German-Czech border
Source: www.dailyfinland.fi
