Austrian police launched a wide-ranging operation on Monday, October 28, to find a man suspected of having killed the mayor of a city and another person, authorities announced, citing a possible conflict related to the hunt.
The suspect is accused of shooting two people under unclear circumstances at this time. According to the region of Upper Austria (northern), where the events occurred, the mayor of the town of Kirchberg ob der Donau, with a population of 1,000, near the border with Germany and the Czech Republic, was murdered “probably due to a conflict over the allocation of hunting rights”.
“A priori armed and extremely dangerous”
“We are looking for a 56-year-old man who is believed to be armed and extremely dangerous,” said a police spokeswoman, Ulrike Handlbauer, interviewed by the ORF television channel.
The area has been completely cordoned off. The body of the 64-year-old elected official was found “lying in a meadow” a few kilometers from his town, the spokesman said, adding that the second victim was a former hunting official.
The regional governor, Thomas Selzer, deplored the “inconceivable acts that shock our country” and expressed his “deep compassion for the families of the bereaved.”
Source: BFM TV
