Irish police say one of their officers has been fatally shot as they tried to stop a man from shooting his partner in their home.
The Garda Siochana national police force says the officer died at the scene on Sunday while the 24-year-old man who shot him also fatally shot himself and wounded his female partner, who had telephoned police in fear for her life. She was hospitalised in a critical condition.
A rarity here
The shooting in the village of Omeath, on the border with Northern Ireland, is a relative rarity in the Republic of Ireland. Most Irish police carry no firearms. The previous fatal shootings of police happened during a bank robbery in 2013 and in a friendly-fire accident in 2001.
