A low ranking police officer was shot dead and another injured by a police conscript on Tuesday when a work-related argument turned violent in Cairo’s upscale Garden City neighbourhood.

In a statement on its Facebook page, the ministry of interior said the conscript—deployed as part the Central Security Forces securing foreign embassies in the area—suffered from a "bad psychological state" resulting from a work feud with the officers.

The ministry said that one of the officers insulted the conscript and threatened to write him up for administrative violations, which could have deprived him of his monthly leave.

The statement added that the conscript has been detained and the prosecution is conducting investigations.

The Central Security Forces, which falls under the authority of the ministry of interior, uses thousands of army conscripts, who have low levels of educational attainment, for police work in 3-year mandatory service.

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</s>The man, who police said was a member of a right-wing group, shot the policemen after they asked him to dispose of his legal gun during a search at the entrance to a municipal building in the town of Georgensgmuend, south of the city of Nuremberg.

Police said he is a member of the Reichsbuerger movement (Reich citizens) which maintains that the World War Two German Reich continues to exist.

The 49-year-old man was lightly injured. Some of the policemen are in serious condition, police said, giving no further details. (Reporting by Joseph Nasr Editing by Jeremy Gaunt)
A gunman shoot dead a policemen in Cairo.