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6 dead, multiple injured in shooting in southwestern Germany

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6 dead, multiple injured in shooting in southwestern Germany
6 dead, multiple injured in shooting in southwestern Germany – Jan 24, 2020

Six people have been killed and several were injured in a shooting in the southwestern German town of Rot am See, police said Friday.

A suspect has been arrested and no further suspects are believed to be at large, Aalen police said.

“According to my information, there were six dead and several injured,” police spokesman Rudolf Biehlmaier told German broadcaster n-tv.

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“We are working on the assumption that this was a single attacker,” he said.

Police secures the area after several people were injured and some presumed dead in a shooting in Rot am See in southwestern Germany, January 24, 2020. REUTERS/Oliver Stroebel

Biehlmaier said the initial information suggested the suspect, a German citizen, and one or more of the victims knew each other.

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Some of the victims belonged to the same family, he added.

Rot am See is located about 170 kilometres (105 miles) northwest of Munich

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