Polish investigator 'gunshots” himself after media briefing'

Polish army investigator has gunshot himself in the head after cutting short a news briefing in his office, authorities and media reports say.

Col Mikolaj Przybyl was protecting an army inquiry into media leaks associated to the air crash that died the Polish president in 2010.

He asked journalist to go so that he could take "a break".

Upon hearing a noisy bump, the newsmen returned to find him on the floor with a pool of blood around his head.

Mr. Przybyl, who was in his office in Poznan, western Poland, is currently in hospital in stable condition. His life is not in risk, according to hospital sources.

One of the journalists present told Polish television: "We listen to a noisy bump and we went back into the room viewing one of the cameras had gone down over. Then we saw the investigator unmoving on the ground in a pool of blood, his armed gun beside him."

In TV images of the news conference, Col Przybyl is perceiving reading out a statement to news reporters: "During my whole service as a civilian and afterward military investigator, I have never brought embarrassment to the Republic of Poland and I will defend the respect of an officer of the Polish armed forces and trial. Thank you, kindly allow me a five-minute break, I need to rest."

He then walks out of shot and the thud of a gun being inclined can be heard followed by a noisy beat.

At the news briefing, Mr Przybyl had rejected prosecutors in Poznan, western Poland, had overheard something on news reporters who were inspecting the crash, AFP news agency reports.

Polish President Bronislaw Komorowski has said in an announcement he was "worried" about the happening and had asked the chief of the national security agency to check the situation.

The plane taking then President Lech Kaczynski's delegation to a commemorative service for the sufferers of the 1940 Katyn carnage of Polish officers by Soviet secret police crashed in bulky fog in Smolensk, western Russia, on 10 April 2010.

In addition to Mr. Kaczynski, his wife and 94 higher ranking officers also killed when the jet attempted to land.

Prosecutors accused pilot mistake.