A manhunt is under way after two young police officers were shot and killed on a country road in western Germany in the early hours of Monday, in a crime that has shocked the nation. 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). When reinforcements arrived at the scene, it was too late for the 24-year-old policewoman and her 29-year-old male colleague. Before they …