The man who shot dead a police officer in the Groningen town of Baflo is an asylum seeker who has lost his right to stay in the Netherlands and is about to be deported

The 48-year-old police officer was shot dead with his own gun in a scuffle with the man. He was wanted in connection with the killing of a 29-year-old woman. She had been battered to death with a fire extinguisher. Previously, an Iraqi man who had lost his right to stay in the country set himself on fire in the center of Amsterdam.