Two killed and seven injured in Swiss factory shooting

A SWISS factory worker has shot two colleagues dead and injured seven more at a wood processing plant near the city of ­Lucerne.

The shooting yesterday was over and the killer dead by the time police arrived at the scene. Five of the injured were in a serious condition.

Lucerne police chief Daniel Bussmann told a news conference the 42-year-old attacker had worked at the factory in the town of Menznau, west of Lucerne, for ten years, but said the motive for the attack was not clear.

A prosecution spokesman said the shooting took place for two to three minutes, with the dead and injured found on the factory floor, in a corridor and the site canteen.

Police did not say how the gunman had died.

Mauro Caprozzo, chief executive of the plant’s owner Kronoswiss, denied rumours that job cuts were due to be announced at the factory.