Report: 3 dead after gunman's drunken rampage in Swiss village Denis Balibouse / Reuters Police officers stand near a crime scene in the Swiss village of Daillon on Thursday after a gunman shot five people. GENEVA -- Three people were killed and two wounded late Wednesday when a gunman opened fire in a Swiss village, police said. The suspect was shot and wounded after threatening officers who tried to arrest him in Daillon, according to police in the Swiss canton of Valais. He was later taken into custody. No police officers were wounded during the incident. French-language Swiss website 20minutes.ch reported that the gunman was a resident of the village aged about 30 who was armed with an assault rifle and had been drinking heavily. It quoted a villager as saying one of the dead was a woman aged in her 80s. Police were alerted by a caller who said several people were lying wounded on the ground at about 8:50 p.m. local time (2:50 p.m. ET) on Wednesday. Daillon is close to the town of Sion, the capital of the canton -- or region -- of Valais. Mass shootings are rare in Switzerland, although gun possession is widespread -- some estimates run to at least one for every three of its 8 million inhabitants. Many are stored in people's attics, a legacy of Switzerland's policy of arming its men to defend its neutrality.