One dead, several injured, in Swiss shooting incident, police say

GENEVA, Aug ‌30 (Reuters) - A ​shooting ​in northern Switzerland has killed one person and ‌injured at least five, some ⁠of them seriously, local police said ‌on Sunday.

Cantonal police in ‌Aargau said a manhunt is underway and they appealed to ​the public for any film or pictures of the ⁠incident, which the mass-market Blick tabloid said had ​occurred at a rave party in the hippodrome.

A video on ​its site recorded ‌successive gunshots being fired. Large areas of the Aarau ⁠town are cordoned off, police said, and it has increased ⁠its presence beyond the town as a ​precaution.

Switzerland has one of the highest rates of gun ownership in Europe although ‌violent shootings are rare and it approved tighter gun ‌control rules in 2019.

(Reporting ⁠by Emma Farge ‌and James ​Mackenzie; Editing by Thomas Derpinghaus, Christopher Cushing and Barbara ‌Lewis)

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