3 dead in Swiss workplace shooting
By The Associated Press
This article was published February 27, 2013 at 7:23 a.m.
BERLIN — A shooting at a wood-processing company in central Switzerland on Wednesday left three people dead and seven wounded, some of them seriously, prosecutors said.
The shooting occurred shortly after 9 a.m. at the premises of Kronospan, a company in the small town of Menznau, west of Lucerne.
Three people were killed, among them the suspected assailant, police in Lucerne said in a statement. A further seven were wounded, several of them seriously. Officials gave no further details.
The local Neue Luzerner Zeitung newspaper cited a witness as saying that the gunman fired in the company canteen. It was not immediately clear who the shooter was, what the motive might have been or whether the assailant worked for the company.
According to the local town council, Kronospan has some 450 employees.
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