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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 A man shot and killed two people in southern Germany, and fired at two others before being overpowered by two mechanics at a petrol station where he had stopped and was threatening staff with a pistol.
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. Authorities said the killings appeared to have been random.
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 47-year-old suspect, identified only as Bernd G under German privacy laws, shot a woman at about 10am (8am BST) from his locally-registered silver Mercedes in the town of Tiefenthal, near Ansbach, police said.
The suspect also shot at a pedestrian and the driver of another vehicle but neither was hit, police said. The 82-year-old woman died at the scene and the suspect fled in his car. He then fatally shot a man on a bicycle in the nearby town of Rammersdorf.
He was apprehended a short time later, police spokeswoman Simone Wiesenberg told n-tv television. The suspect also shot at a pedestrian and a farmer driving a tractor, but hit neither, police said.
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. Shortly afterwards, he entered a petrol station in Bad Windsheim, about 20 miles from the scene of the shootings. He threatened staff, but they were able to overwhelm and subdue him until police arrived.
Bavaria’s interior minister, Joachim Herrmann, called the shooting an “ugly, incomprehensible crime”, noting that there was no indication the suspect had known the victims.
Prosecutors said the suspect showed signs of psychological problems after his arrest and was currently being assessed by a psychologist. The man, who lived locally, had no previous convictions, lead prosecutor Gerhard Neuhof said.