A 49-year-old man has been arrested after shooting four police officers in Germany's southern state of Bavaria, German police say.

The man opened fire after being asked to hand over his weapon, for which he had a permit, the BBC reported on Wednesday, citing a police statement.

Some of the officers were reported to have been seriously injured in the incident in the town of Georgensgmuend, just south of Nuremberg.

The man is said to belong to the far-right Reichsbuerger movement. 

The Reichsbuerger group does not recognise the authority of the post-war German republic and believes in the continued existence of the World War Two-era German empire, or Reich.

German authorities say they do not have current figures for the group's membership.

Source: MENA