Police dog DIES as axe-wielding man shrieking ‘Allahu Akbar’ attacks armed officers who shoot him to the ground in Dutch city of Schiedam

I turned on my PC to better read reports of the incident tonight in Germany and this had succeeeded it as breaking news. The first English language report seems to be this one in the Daily Mail In Dutch here

Dutch police have shot a man who was shouting ‘Allahu Akbar’ as he tried to attack them with an axe. According to Netherlands news site NU, police entered his apartment and were attacked this afternoon. 

During the fighting, officers reportedly tried unsuccessfully to taser the man, who stabbed a police dog. .. which later died as a result of its injuries 

Mayor Cor Lamers told NU the man was of a Syrian background and ‘was known to different aid agencies’.  He is in hospital in a stable condition. 

Just another multicultural day during ramadan in Europe.