USA: Police shot a man armed with a knife

New York police shot a man armed with a knife on Friday who was moving on the Brooklyn Bridge ropes.

According to the officers, he ignored repeated calls for the rejection of the weapon and approached 1 of them with a knife – the AP agency reported.

The man told the police rescue squad that he wanted the officers to kill him, and claimed he had a bomb," reported Emergency Service Unit commander Gerard Dowling. Police, harnessed, tried to get him to come down for about an hr and repeatedly called for the knife to be rejected.

AB, PAP