 Heydrich sent Klein to chase Gabčík on foot and, in an exchange of fire, Gabčík shot Klein in the leg below the knee.Kubiš and Gabčík managed to escape the scene.On 4 June Heydrich, having refused to be operated on by non-Germans, died in Bulovka Hospital in Prague from septicaemia caused by pieces of horse hair from the upholstery and his clothing entering his body when the bomb exploded.