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Police launch manhunt after Zurich shooting

Zurich city and cantonal police are looking for a gunman who shot and injured two men on a street in the centre of Switzerland’s largest city on Thursday afternoon.

Police launch manhunt after Zurich shooting
Site of the Zurich shooting. Image: Google Street View

Two Turkish men, aged 33 and 41, were injured in the shootout at a property at 37 Brauerstrasse shortly after 3pm, city police said.

The two men were taken to hospital for treatment of gunshot wounds but their lives are “out of danger”, city police spokesman Marco Cortesi told the SDA news agency.

One of the men underwent an emergency operation, the SDA said.

The shooter fled the scene.

Police said the circumstances and the motives behind the shooting were not immediately known.

The site of the shooting, close to the Langstrasse, is a business called Perla-Mode described by the SDA news service as a cultural space.

The victims of the shooting did not live in the building.

Police evacuated four people not linked to the attack from the building.

Forensic officers scoured the building looking for evidence.

City police issued a call for witnesses who may have seem suspicious activities in the neighbourhod to phone 044 247 22 11.

Cantonal police meanwhile are looking for gunmen who stole at least 30,000 francs’ worth of electronic equipment from a school in Rümlang, north of Zurich, earlier in the day.

The thieves searched a total of 19 rooms, including the teachers’ room and the library, and left a “trail of destruction”, damaging doors, closets and drawers, police said.

The broke a window to gain access to the school.

Stolen items included several expensive cameras, around a dozen computers and cash.

Police estimated total damage at 40,000 francs.

Classes of 300 students were disrupted on Thursday morning while police conducted an investigation at the school. 

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Man dies after shooting wife in Zurich toy store

A domestic dispute in a Toys’R’Us store in the canton of Zurich turned deadly on Tuesday when a 28-year-old man used a handgun to shoot his 24-year-old wife before pulling the trigger on himself.

Man dies after shooting wife in Zurich toy store
Photo: Wikimedia Commons

The incident occurred around 1pm in an underground parking area at the store in Dietlikon, a municipality northeast of the city of Zurich, cantonal police said.

The woman, a Swiss citizen, was taken to by ambulance hospital with serious gunshot wounds.

Her husband, an ethnic Albanian Serb, was transported separately by a Rega emergency rescue services helicopter to hospital where he died from his self-inflicted wounds, police said.

The couple’s three-year-old daughter, who witnessed the shootings, was not injured, police said.

She was taken into the custody of relatives.

The man was registered with cantonal police due to past cases of domestic violence, police said.

“I wanted to park and I saw him covered in blood and lying on the ground, trembling,” a witness told the Blick news site.

“I went to get help in the Toys’R’Us store,” the witness said.

“There a blond woman lay bleeding in the elevator on the floor.”

Police are investigating what led to the shootings.
 

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