Shocking moment 'rampaging' man is shot inside Berlin Cathedral

This is the dramatic moment a knife-wielding attacker is shot by police after trying to stab visitors at Berlin Cathedral on Sunday.



The clip shows the man, 53, from Austria, leaping up and down and brandishing the weapon in a tense show down with police at the altar.



He is seen charging at officers despite being targeted with pepper spray, before one of them shoots him in the leg and he falls down.



Police said that when officers arrived they had urged the man to put down the knife and tried to neutralise him with irritant gas, to no success.



Finally, they faced the assailant near the altar of the cathedral, and 'the man was wounded in the leg by a shot from a policeman,' a spokesman said.