Upper Palatinate: Second fatality after shots fired during gun control

An employee of the Neumarkt district office was shot during a weapons check in the Upper Palatinate. It was initially announced in the evening that an employee was fatally injured. As a spokesman for the police headquarters later said, the colleague, who was initially thought to be seriously injured, was also killed.

"We assume that she died immediately as a result of the shooting," said the spokesman. The situation in which the body was found speaks for this. It has now been recovered from the home in Berngau in the Neumarkt district in Upper Palatinate, where the armed suspect is still staying. The police did not provide any further details about the identity of the victims for the time being.

The emergency services are currently not expecting any further deaths or injuries. "There is no other person in his immediate vicinity who is at risk," said the spokesman. "We have contact with him, the contact goes both ways."

Armored vehicle and helicopter in action

The officers asked people in the area not to leave their homes or at least to avoid the cordoned off area around the suspect's house. The police and rescue workers received several emergency calls around 2 p.m. because of the sounds of gunfire. As a result, a special operations team drove to Berngau in an armored vehicle, among other things, and police helicopters were also in use.

According to the police, the fatally injured authority employee was rescued from outside the building. The emergency services did not provide any information as to whether there were other people in the house with the shooter. According to the officials, it was a routine check on the gun owner. Among other things, it is checked whether the weapons are stored correctly.

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