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Gunman at large after killing two in Switzerland

By AFP
December 12, 2023

GENEVA: Swiss police are hunting a gunman who killed two people and injured another in the southern Swiss town of Sion on Monday.

Police said a man fired shots at people in two distinct locations in the picturesque town in the Alpine Wallis region shortly before 8 am (0700 GMT). 

Police officers control a vehicle near Saint Maurice, as they search for a gunman who killed two people and injured another in the southern Swiss town of Sion, on December 11, 2023. — AFP
Police officers control a vehicle near Saint Maurice, as they search for a gunman who killed two people and injured another in the southern Swiss town of Sion, on December 11, 2023. — AFP 

“Two people were killed and another was injured,” police said, adding that the man´s identity and his motives for carrying out the shootings remained unknown.

However, they said initial information indicated that the shooter knew his victims. A vast police operation is underway “in a bid to arrest the shooter”, the police statement said. The Wallis public prosecutor´s office has launched a murder investigation, it added.