{"id":162071,"date":"2022-02-01T11:01:30","date_gmt":"2022-02-01T03:01:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=162071"},"modified":"2022-02-01T11:01:30","modified_gmt":"2022-02-01T03:01:30","slug":"germany-shooting-2-suspects-arrested-after-two-police-officers-shot-dead-near-kusel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=162071","title":{"rendered":"Germany shooting: 2 suspects arrested after two police officers shot dead near Kusel"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Officers shut roads in the area while launching a major manhunt on Monday<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

BERLIN, Feb 1 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Two men, 38-year-old and 32-year-old respectively, were arrested on suspicion of shooting two police officers dead during a traffic control on a rural road in western Germany Monday morning, according to a press release by local authorities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The shooting occurred at around 4:20 a.m. in Kusel in the state of Rhineland-Palatinate, after the two police officers had pulled over a car during a routine traffic stop.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The two police officers, a 29-year-old male officer and a 24-year-old female officer, “were fatally injured by gunshots,” according to the joint press release by the local public prosecutor’s office and the local police headquarters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Announcing the arrest of a 38-year-old man, police said they were also holding a second man, 32, provisionally.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A search for possible accomplices continued, they added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The suspect was arrested in Sulzbach, Saarland, shortly after 17:00 and will be brought before an investigating judge in Kaiserslautern on Tuesday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Roads in the area were closed on Monday and authorities urged people not to pick up hitchhikers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Some details of the incident are unclear. As yet there is little description of what happened in the attack and police have not suggested a possible motive.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

German newspaper Bild reports<\/a> that the officers sent two radio messages from the road.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the first, the officers reportedly said that they had stopped a suspicious vehicle and discovered dead game in the boot.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A second message followed soon after, the paper added. “They’re shooting at us!” the officers reportedly said, before radio contact broke off.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

By the time reinforcements arrived the female officer was already dead, local media report. Her colleague died soon after.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“This terrible act leaves you stunned,” tweeted Marco Buschmann, Germany’s Justice Minister.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sabrina Kunz, state chairwoman of the police union, said their thoughts were with the relatives and colleagues of the dead.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“We are living through the true nightmare of all police officers,” she said, adding she was “stunned” by what had happened. — NNN-AGENCIES<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

BERLIN, Feb 1 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Two men, 38-year-old and 32-year-old respectively, were arrested on suspicion of shooting two police officers dead during a traffic control on a rural road in western Germany Monday morning, according to a press release by local authorities. The shooting occurred at around 4:20 a.m. in Kusel in the state of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":162074,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[209],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162071"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=162071"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162071\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/162074"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=162071"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=162071"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=162071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}