{"id":288550,"date":"2025-01-08T11:46:33","date_gmt":"2025-01-08T03:46:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=288550"},"modified":"2025-01-08T11:46:33","modified_gmt":"2025-01-08T03:46:33","slug":"germany-two-workers-killed-one-injured-in-shooting-at-mechanical-engineering-firm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=288550","title":{"rendered":"Germany: Two workers killed, one injured in shooting at mechanical engineering firm"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img src=\"https:\/\/s.yimg.com\/ny\/api\/res\/1.2\/lIoq2dbwi03zrexyvmtpVg--\/YXBwaWQ9aGlnaGxhbmRlcjt3PTEyNDI7aD04Mjk-\/https:\/\/media.zenfs.com\/en\/dpa_international_526\/c7e8cff7edf437e464f8f5e344e8a29b\" alt=\"Police officers stand near an engineering company, where two people have been killed and one person was critically injured by a shooting at the premises. The perpetrator is on the run and a manhunt is underway, a police spokesman said. Fabian Koss\/onw-images\/dpa\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>STUTTGART (Germany), Jan 8 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8212; Two employees have been killed after shots were fired at a mechanical engineering company in south-western Germany, police said on Tuesday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>One other man was critically injured, police added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A masked person entered the company&#8217;s premises in the town of Bad Friedrichshall, north of Stuttgart, in the early evening and then fired the shots at the men.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The suspected perpetrator, a 52-year-old German man, was arrested in the town of Seckach, police said later.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to initial investigations, the suspect is an employee of the company where the attack occurred, police said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Other employees were on site during the crime. They were taken out of the building and questioned by officers, said a police spokeswoman. She did not provide any information on the number of employees present during the shooting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A homicide squad has taken over the investigation with forensic investigators at the scene.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Around 20,000 people live in Bad Friedrichshall, located in the prosperous state of Baden-W\u00fcrttemberg.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Bad Friedrichshall&#8217;s mayor Timo Frey told dpa he was shocked by the news.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He said the family-owned company, which makes gears, is well-known in the area and is a major employer with a staff of around 400.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Shooting incidents are uncommon in the European Union&#8217;s most populous nation. &#8212; NNN-AGENCIES<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>STUTTGART (Germany), Jan 8 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8212; Two employees have been killed after shots were fired at a mechanical engineering company in south-western Germany, police said on Tuesday. One other man was critically injured, police added. A masked person entered the company&#8217;s premises in the town of Bad Friedrichshall, north of Stuttgart, in the early evening [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":288551,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[209],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288550"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=288550"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288550\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":288554,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288550\/revisions\/288554"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/288551"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=288550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=288550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=288550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}