One dead, several injured, in Swiss shooting incident, police say


GENEVA, Aug ⁠30 (Reuters) - A shooting in northern ⁠Switzerland has killed one person and ‌injured at least five, some of them seriously, local police said on Sunday.

Cantonal ​police in Aargau said a ⁠manhunt is ⁠underway and they appealed to the public ⁠for ‌any film or pictures of the incident, which ⁠the mass-market Blick tabloid said had ​occurred at ‌a rave party in the ⁠hippodrome.

A video ​on its site recorded successive gunshots being fired. Large areas of ⁠the Aarau town are cordoned ​off, police said, and it has increased its presence beyond the town ⁠as a precaution.

Switzerland has one of the highest rates of gun ownership in Europe although violent shootings ​are rare and ⁠it approved tighter gun control rules ​in 2019.

(Reporting by ‌Emma Farge and James ​Mackenzie; Editing by Thomas Derpinghaus, Christopher Cushing and Barbara Lewis)

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