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February 28, 2013, Thursday
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A longtime employee opened fire at a wood-processing company in central Switzerland yesterday, leaving three people dead, including the assailant, in the country's second multiple-fatality shooting in two months, police said.
Seven other people were injured, six of them seriously, in the shooting at the premises of the company Kronospan in the small town of Menznau, Lucerne criminal police chief Daniel Bussmann said.
The incident occurred as the Swiss parliament prepares to consider tightening some aspects of the country's famously lax gun legislation.
The assailant, a 42-year-old Swiss male, arrived at the premises shortly after 9am, drew a pistol and started firing.
Kronospan Chief Executive Mauro Capozzo said that the suspected assailant had been "with us for more than 10 years, a quiet man, no other incidents involving him are known." The man was still with the company at the time of the shooting.
Kronospan has some 450 employees. There was no immediate word on a possible motive; Capozzo said the company hasn't laid anyone off recently.
Ida Glanzmann-Hunkeler, a Christian Democrat lawmaker, said a proposal will be put before parliament in the coming weeks that would require greater exchange of information between the gun registries kept by Switzerland's 26 cantons.
But the shooting is unlikely to immediately revive calls for ex-soldiers to store their military-issued firearms in secure army depot.
The country has a long-standing tradition for men to keep their military rifles after completing compulsory military service.
This partly accounts for the high rate of gun ownership in the country, where some 2.3 million firearms are owned by a population of about 8 million.
Seven other people were injured, six of them seriously, in the shooting at the premises of the company Kronospan in the small town of Menznau, Lucerne criminal police chief Daniel Bussmann said.
The incident occurred as the Swiss parliament prepares to consider tightening some aspects of the country's famously lax gun legislation.
The assailant, a 42-year-old Swiss male, arrived at the premises shortly after 9am, drew a pistol and started firing.
Kronospan Chief Executive Mauro Capozzo said that the suspected assailant had been "with us for more than 10 years, a quiet man, no other incidents involving him are known." The man was still with the company at the time of the shooting.
Kronospan has some 450 employees. There was no immediate word on a possible motive; Capozzo said the company hasn't laid anyone off recently.
Ida Glanzmann-Hunkeler, a Christian Democrat lawmaker, said a proposal will be put before parliament in the coming weeks that would require greater exchange of information between the gun registries kept by Switzerland's 26 cantons.
But the shooting is unlikely to immediately revive calls for ex-soldiers to store their military-issued firearms in secure army depot.
The country has a long-standing tradition for men to keep their military rifles after completing compulsory military service.
This partly accounts for the high rate of gun ownership in the country, where some 2.3 million firearms are owned by a population of about 8 million.
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