German police found the body of a man linked to a fire and a threat with a firearm in Altdorf near Nuremberg in Bavaria on Sunday after a major operation lasting several hours. Police sounded the all-clear and lifted a block on the nearby A3 motorway which had been closed in both directions as they cordoned off a section of woodland to search for the man. No one else was reported injured in the incident that began with a call-out to a fire in a house and in nearby woodland. “On searching a garden house, in which an 88-year-old man lived together with his 82-year-old wife, a body burnt to unrec…