On the night of Monday, two police officers were fatally injured by shots during a traffic check in the Kusel district in the Palatinate. This was announced by the police in Kaiserslautern. The background to what happened is still unclear.
The two were shot at around 4:20 a.m. during a traffic check on District Road 22, the police said. One searches “at high pressure for the fleeing perpetrators”. The population was asked not to pick up hitchhikers. “At least one suspect is armed.”