The German police announced today that they detained two suspects after the murder of two police officers during a routine traffic control.
One of the suspects is a 38-year-old man against whom a police warrant already existed.
He was identified a few hours after the murder of two police officers this morning in the western Rhineland-Palatinate region, a police spokesman told AFP.
He was arrested by special intervention forces.
A second 32-year-old suspect was also arrested without resisting, investigative services said without giving further details.
A major search operation was launched this morning after the shooting death of two police officers. The motive for the murder has not yet been determined.
Two police officers, a 29-year-old man and a 24-year-old woman, were killed around 4.20:XNUMX this morning on a country road in the German district of Kuzel, in the state of Rhineland-Palatinate.
On the portal of the Bild daily, it is written that the police officers were killed by poachers with bullets in the head. They sent a radio message just before the drama stating that they had stopped a suspicious vehicle that was transporting dead game in its trunk.
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