Frankfurt attack 'only ended when gun jammed'

A GUNMAN enraged over the Afghan war probably acted alone when he shot dead two US airmen and wounded two others at Frankfurt airport this week, a German prosecutor has said.

He also revealed the suspect's gun jammed during the attack, preventing more deaths.

Arid Uka, a Kosovan national, confessed to firing on the US airmen at point-blank with a 9mm pistol, federal prosecutor Rainer Griesbaum said yesterday. "He wanted revenge for the US operations in Afghanistan," he said. "Preliminary evaluations show it was the act of an Islamist-inspired single perpetrator."

Mr Griesbaum said the gunman had walked up to airmen boarding the US army bus and asked for a cigarette. After asking if the soldiers were headed to Afghanistan and hearing it confirmed, Uka shot the 25-year-old man in the back of the head, killing him. He then boarded the bus, shouted Allahu Akbar and shot a 21-year-old airman sitting in the driver's seat dead, wounded two others and pulled the trigger on a fifth target when the gun jammed.