Prosecutor shoots himself at news conference

A MILITARY prosecutor said he tried to commit suicide during a news conference he had called because his own work has been used as a reason to support plans to close military prosecution offices in Poland.

Colonel Mikolaj Przybyl invited reporters and TV crews to his office in the western city of Poznan on Monday to defend the work his office has done and to reject the planned reforms.

Midway through the news conference, he asked to be left alone, then shot himself in the head.