Bayern Munich’s chief financial officer Jan-Christian Dreesen has been hospitalised after accidentally shooting himself while hunting.

The 50-year-old, who has been in charge of the club’s finances since 2013, was reported to be returning to his car from a hunt in the Brandenberg Alps, Austria on Thursday when his rifle went off.

Photographs in the local press showed Dreesen in an ambulance with heavy bandaging on his hand.

A police officer told news agency SID that the Bayern chief may lose some fingers.

“The hunter in question had his rifle over his shoulder, he walked over to his car, then a shot was released with his left hand over the barrel of the gun,” the officer said.

“The injuries…