The Interior Ministry said Saturday that a suspect in a massive double bomb attack in Baghdad grabbed a guard’s weapon and shot an investigator, before being shot himself.

In a statement, the ministry said that the incident occurred late in the week during an interrogation at the general directorate of criminal investigations in Baghdad.

The statement said that a guard was giving the suspect water when he grabbed the guard’s personal weapon, shot and wounded the guard, and then shot the investigator.

The ministry added that Maj. Arkan Hajem, the wounded investigator, wrested the gun from the suspect and shot him before dying. The suspect was taken to the hospital, where he died from a loss of blood.

The man was suspected of involvement in last Sunday’s bombing of the Justice Ministry, the statement said. The ministry has initiated an independent judicial probe and an administrative investigation into the matter.

(article and photo source: CNN)