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30.07.2017
Constance disco shooting: Two people dead, say police
Shots fired at a discotheque in Constance in southern Germany have left two people dead, say police. One was a guest, the other the suspected shooter, killed in a shootout with police.
Police outside the discotheque Club Grey in Constance
Police in Germany's southwestern state of Baden-Württemberg said the 34-year-old alleged perpetrator of Sunday's pre-dawn shooting had died of wounds after a shootout with police.
The other person killed was a guest at the discotheque.
Injuries were sustained by three other persons inside the venue as well as a police officer hurt during the shootout after the suspect left the premises.
The officer's wounds were not life-threatening, police and prosecutors said.
The attacker's motives were not known, they added.
SWR: doorman intervened
A German DPA news agency photographer identified the venue as Club Grey, a discotheque in Constance's commercial zone near the city's airport.
SWR initially quoted eyewitnesses as saying that a doorman was hit by shots from an automatic pistol as he tried to hinder the alleged perpetrator.
Multiple emergency phone calls had been received around 4:30 a.m., local time.
Constance on the shores of Lake Constance, near Switzerland
"Guests were able to save themselves by fleeing outside or hiding," the police spokesman said.
DPA said special police units rushed to the scene in the German city of 83,000 inhabitants, which lies directly on Germany's southern border with Switzerland, not knowing whether the incident involved a single or multiple attackers.
A helicopter was sighted hovering over the discotheque.
Hamburg rampage
Germany remains on edge, after a fatal rampage in Hamburg on Friday.
A rejected asylum seeker killed one person and injured six others while armed with a knife seized at a Hamburg supermarket.
Hamburg authorities later said he was an Islamist due for deportation and known to police as psychologically unstable.
ipj/rc (dpa, SWR, AFP, Reuters)
Constance disco shooting: Two people dead, say police | News | DW | 30.07.2017
30.07.2017
Constance disco shooting: Two people dead, say police
Shots fired at a discotheque in Constance in southern Germany have left two people dead, say police. One was a guest, the other the suspected shooter, killed in a shootout with police.
Police outside the discotheque Club Grey in Constance
Police in Germany's southwestern state of Baden-Württemberg said the 34-year-old alleged perpetrator of Sunday's pre-dawn shooting had died of wounds after a shootout with police.
The other person killed was a guest at the discotheque.
Injuries were sustained by three other persons inside the venue as well as a police officer hurt during the shootout after the suspect left the premises.
The officer's wounds were not life-threatening, police and prosecutors said.
The attacker's motives were not known, they added.
SWR: doorman intervened
A German DPA news agency photographer identified the venue as Club Grey, a discotheque in Constance's commercial zone near the city's airport.
SWR initially quoted eyewitnesses as saying that a doorman was hit by shots from an automatic pistol as he tried to hinder the alleged perpetrator.
Multiple emergency phone calls had been received around 4:30 a.m., local time.
Constance on the shores of Lake Constance, near Switzerland
"Guests were able to save themselves by fleeing outside or hiding," the police spokesman said.
DPA said special police units rushed to the scene in the German city of 83,000 inhabitants, which lies directly on Germany's southern border with Switzerland, not knowing whether the incident involved a single or multiple attackers.
A helicopter was sighted hovering over the discotheque.
Hamburg rampage
Germany remains on edge, after a fatal rampage in Hamburg on Friday.
A rejected asylum seeker killed one person and injured six others while armed with a knife seized at a Hamburg supermarket.
Hamburg authorities later said he was an Islamist due for deportation and known to police as psychologically unstable.
ipj/rc (dpa, SWR, AFP, Reuters)
Constance disco shooting: Two people dead, say police | News | DW | 30.07.2017