Two people dead after shooting in German supermarket — police

German police secure a street following an arrest in Sulzbach after two policemen were fatally shot in January. Two people were found dead after a shooting in a supermarket in central Germany on Tuesday. (Reuters)
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  • HNA cited an eyewitness as saying that a man had shot a woman and then himself at the Aldi outlet

BERLIN: Two people were found dead after a shooting in a supermarket in central Germany on Tuesday, police said on Twitter, adding that there was no danger to the public.
The shooting occurred around 1 p.m. local time (1100 GMT) in Schwalmstadt-Treysa, a town of around 8,500 people northeast of Germany’s financial capital Frankfurt, according to police.
They said it was not yet clear what had happened. Regional newspaper HNA cited an eyewitness as saying that a man had shot a woman and then himself at the Aldi outlet.