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Police officers at the crime scene in Plettenberg
Photo: Markus Klümper / dpa
After a robbery on a kebab shop in the Sauerland, the police shot a man.
He was seriously injured and flown to a special clinic in a helicopter, the police said on Thursday night.
It is still unclear whether the person shot is the alleged perpetrator.
On Wednesday evening around 9.45 p.m., a robber entered the kebab shop in Plettenberg (North Rhine-Westphalia) and demanded money from the cash register at gunpoint.
Then he fled with a previously unknown amount of money.
About five minutes later, a police patrol met a man near the crime scene and shot him.
His identity was unclear and a possible involvement in the robbery is still part of the investigation, the police said in the night.
When asked, she did not provide any information about why the man was shot.
aar / dpa