BERLIN - Two teenagers have been arrested after an off-duty firefighter was killed in an altercation between two couples and a group of youths in the southern German city of Augsburg, authorities said Sunday. The couples had just left a Christmas market late Friday evening when they ran into the seven-strong group of young men and an argument started, according to police. One of the youths hit the 49-year-old victim in the head and he fell to the ground. Dozens of Augsburg firefighters held a vigil Sunday morning for their colleague, and German Interior Minister Horst Seehofer voiced his dismay at the killing. Later Sunday, Bavaria’s state interior ministry announced the arrest of the suspected main culprit and an accomplice.

Source: thestar December 08, 2019 14:48 UTC