Two people were killed on Thursday after a 53-year-old man fired a gunshot at a Mercedes-Benz factory in southeastern Germany, company sources said.
The shooting took place in Sindelfingen, near Stuttgart.
The suspect is a 53-year-old man who has been arrested by the authorities, a source at the German prosecutor’s office told the DPA news agency.
The police received the first emergency contact at 07:45 (06:45 in Lisbon) and later spread a message via the social network Twitter informing factory workers that after the arrest of the suspect, there was “no more danger”.
The reasons for the shooting have not yet been determined and the identity of the suspect has not been disclosed by the police.
In a statement, Mercedes-Benz mourned the death of the two people at the Sindelfingen plant.
“We are deeply shocked and saddened by the tragic news,” the company said in a statement.
About 35,000 people work in vehicle production at the Sindelfingen factory complex.
Source: DN
