A manhunt is under way after two young police officers were shot and killed during a traffic check on a country road in western Germany in the early hours of Monday. The officers from the police department in the small town of Kusel had been on a routine patrol, police in the nearby city of Kaiserslautern said. The shots were fired during a traffic check on district road number 22 in the village of Ulmet at approximately 4:20 am (0320 GMT). The police officers were able to send a radio message themselves, a police spokesperson said. When reinforcements arrived at the scene, it was too late for…