A 25 year old man was shot dead by police officers in a raid on an underground car park in the village of Cijuela on the outskirts of Granada during the early hours of last Friday morning.

The dead man, who was armed with a sawn-off shotgun, is believed to have been part of a gang responsible for a number of violent assaults recently on petrol stations and industrial estates in the area.

A second man (23) was arrested although a third managed to escape and remains at large, whereabouts unknown.

The incident occurred shortly after 3am at a garage on the calle Azorín, and was the culmination of a police investigation that started several months ago.