A longtime employee opened fire at a wood-processing company in central Switzerland on Wednesday, leaving three people dead including the assailant, police said.
A further seven people were wounded, six of them seriously, in the shooting at the premises of Kronospan, in the small town of Menznau, Lucerne criminal police chief Daniel Bussmann said.
Bussmann told a news conference in Menznau that the man was 42 years old, Swiss newspaper Blick reported on its website. Both the suspected shooter and the victims were Swiss.
He said the man arrived at the premises shortly after 9 a.m., drew a pistol and started firing at people. Officials didn't immediately have further details on the weapon or information on how the assailant was killed.
Kronospan Chief Executive Mauro Capozzo said that the suspected assailant had been "with us for more than 10 years -- a quiet man, no other incidents involving him are known."
'State of shock'
According to the local town council, Kronospan has some 450 employees. There was no immediate word on a possible motive; Capozzo said the company hasn't laid anyone off recently.
Gun ownership is widespread in Switzerland, thanks to liberal regulation and a long-standing tradition for men to keep their military rifles after completing compulsory military service.
There are about 46 civillian-owned guns for every 100 people in Switzerland — making it third in per-capita gun ownership behind the U.S. and Yemen, according to the Geneva-based Small Arms Survey.
An estimated 2.3 million firearms are owned by the country's nearly 8 million people. However, the exact number is unknown because Switzerland does not have a national gun registry.
A 2011 referendum to tighten controls failed.
Past gun crimes
Despite the high ownership rate, gun crime is relatively rare, with just 24 gun killings in 2009, which works out to a rate of about 0.3 per 100,000 inhabitants. The U.S. rate that year was about 11 times higher.
A 33-year-old gunman opened fire on Jan. 3, killing three women and wounded two men in a southern Swiss village of Dallion.
Police then shot and wounded the suspect when he threatened to turn the gun on them, according to the BBC. The man was then arrested.
In 2001, Freidrich Leibacher walked into the parliament of the Swiss canton of Zug disguised as a police officer, armed with multiple guns.
Leibacher, who had grievances with local authorities, opened fire on the assmebly, killing 14 people and injuring 18 others before turning the gun on himself.
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