Border Guard Shoots Comrade, Flees to West
United Press International
BAMBERG, West Germany —
An East German border guard shot a fellow guard patrolling the West German frontier and slipped through the Iron Curtain into Bavaria where he asked for asylum, authorities said Friday.
The official East German news agency ADN said East Germany’s chief prosecutor’s office will ask West Germany to arrest the guard, who was not identified, and extradite him to East Germany.
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