The incident happened in the Hamburg city centre near one of UEFA's fan parks today.
A man who launched an attack on a police officer with an axe and was in possession of an 'incendiary device' close to a Euro 2024 fan park has been shot. The attacker has been described as 'severely injured' following the incident in Hamburg around 12.30pm local time, he was driven away in an ambulance.
Fellow officers used pepper spray in a bid to disarm him before firing several shots. The man then collapsed and is said to be critically injured. The Netherlands and Poland will go head to head at Hamburg's Volksparkstadion in the first of three Euro 2024 group stage matches today, including England's curtain-raiser against Serbia in Gelsenkirchen. Also taking place is the Group C clash between Slovenia and Denmark in Stuttgart
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