BERLIN, April 21 — A German police officer yesterday shot dead a man who threatened people with a knife outside a night club and advanced toward a patrol spraying a suspicious gas, police said.

Law enforcement opened an investigation into the 27-year-old officer who fired several shots at the 21-year-old man in the northern city of Oldenburg, a statement said. The man died from his wounds in hospital.

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The incident took place in the early hours Sunday after the assailant “injured and threatened several people”, police said.

After being turned away from a night club, the suspect “sprayed an irritant gas in the direction of two security employees” and several people suffered “light injuries”, police said.

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“Some started chasing him but stopped when he threatened them with a knife,” a statement added.

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The man got away from a first group of police officers dispatched to the scene, but then ran into another patrol.

He “advanced in a threatening way toward police officers” spraying irritant gas at them, leading the officer “to use his arm”, the statement said. — AFP

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