A German police officer shot and wounded a man who threatened a female officer with a weapon in the car park of a Berlin hospital on Thursday, a police spokeswoman said.
She said the man was wounded in the leg and had undergone surgery at the hospital in the Kreuzberg district of Germany’s capital.
German authorities have been on high security alert since December, when an Islamist militant drove a truck at high speed into a crowd at a Berlin Christmas market, killing 12 people.