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| Two dead in Bavaria shooting | |
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| A man has shot and killed two people in southern Germany, and fired at two others before being apprehended by authorities, police said | |
| The man, whose identity has not been released, shot a woman at about 11.30am (09.30 GMT) from his locally registered Mercedes in the town of Tiefenthal, near Ansbach in Bavaria, police said in a statement. | |
| The woman died at the scene and the man fled in his car before fatally shooting a man on a bicycle in the nearby town of Rammersdorf, according to police. | |
| The suspect also shot at a pedestrian and the driver of another vehicle but neither was hit, police said. | |
| He was apprehended a short time later, police spokeswoman Simone Wiesenberg told n-tv television. | |
| The local Nuernberger Zeitung newspaper reported the man was tackled by workers at a gas station in Bad Windsheim, about 20 miles (35km) from the scene of the shootings, after threatening them with a gun. They tied him up and called police, the paper reported. | |
| Further details were not immediately available. |