Czech police detain alleged Spanish contract killer

Czech police say they have detained a 45-year-old Spanish man suspected of double murder in his home country. A spokeswoman for the counter-organised crime unit said that last June, the man, allegedly a contract killer, shot dead a man and a woman in Spain. The suspect has been remanded in custody and a court will decide on his extradition to Spain. The Czech police arrested the man in cooperation with their Spanish colleagues outside a block of flats in the town of Caslav in Central Bohemia where he was in hiding. Spain issued a European arrest warrant for him last month.