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Refugee Shot Dead by Police in Berlin Migrant Center

© AP Photo / Matthias SchraderGerman federal police officers check refugees who arrived without documents at the main station in Rosenheim, Germany, Tuesday, July 28, 2015.
German federal police officers check refugees who arrived without documents at the main station in Rosenheim, Germany, Tuesday, July 28, 2015. - Sputnik International
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Police shot and killed a refugee in a migrant center in Berlin's Moabit district.

BERLIN (Sputnik) – According to the Berliner Morgenpost newspaper, the 29-year-old refugee was trying to attack another migrant living in the refugee reception center — a 27-year-old man — with a knife when the police intervened with several police officers firing at the alleged attacker.

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The man later died from multiple gun-shot wounds, the paper reported.

According to the paper, the police was at the site at the time of the attempted attack as it had arrived to detain the 27-year-old individual over accusations of harassment toward the eight-year-old daughter of the now deceased refugee.

Police has reportedly launched an investigation into the incident.

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