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A gunman has been shot dead by German police after opening fire at a nightclub in the city of Konstanz.

One person was killed and three seriously injured in the attack at about 04:30 (02:30 GMT) on Sunday.

The shooter targeted the Grey club in an industrial part of the city, on Max-Stromeyer-Strasse.

Police have ruled out a terrorist motive. A spokesperson told N-TV that the gunman was a 34-year-old Iraqi citizen, but not an asylum seeker.

He is believed to have lived in Germany for a long time.

Hundreds of revellers are thought to have been at the club. Police said they either fled outside in terror, or found places to hide as the shooting unfolded.

A doorman appeared to have been shot with an automatic weapon as he tried to stop the attacker, witnesses told broadcaster SWR.

One police officer was also wounded in the exchange of fire. The officer's injuries are not thought to be life-threatening.

Police and prosecutors said in a statement (in German) that special commando forces and a police helicopter had been deployed, as it was not yet known if the suspect had accomplices.

The motive for the shooting remains unclear.</s>Two people were killed and at least four others injured in a shooting at the Grey nightclub in the German city of Konstanz, July 30, 2017. In this photo, police officers are seen in the streets of Heidelberg awaiting the arrival of the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge on the second day of their visit to Germany in Heidelberg, Germany, July 20, 2017.

Two people including the gunman were killed and at least four others were left wounded after a man opened fire in a German nightclub Sunday (Saturday night in the U.S.), police said.

The 34-year-old suspect opened fire at Grey nightclub on Max-Stromeyer-Strasse in the city of Konstanz around 4:30 a.m. CEST (10:30 p.m. EDT). Later the attacker was shot and fatally injured by the police in a gunfight.

The 34-year-old attacker "was critically injured in a shootout with police officers as he left the disco, and later succumbed to his wounds in hospital," according to a press release by authorities after the incident.

"The motives of the probably only acting man are not yet known. Investigations by the prosecutor's office and the criminal investigation department continue," the release said.

The gunman was said to be an Iraqi national who resided in Germany, Fritz Bezikofer from the Kostanz police told CNN. A German police spokesman told broadcaster N-TV the attacker had lived in the country for a long time and was not an asylum seeker.

"According to our investigations this is not terror-related, unless the gunman radicalized himself within the last three days," Bezikofer said. "At this moment we believe that he may have had alternative motives," Bezikofer added.

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One police officer was also injured during the gunfight with the attacker outside the club. A bouncer at the scene who tried to stop the suspect was also injured. Police authorities mentioned that special commando forces and a police helicopter were deployed in the city as they were not yet sure if the suspect was acting alone or had accomplices, according to BBC News.

The shooting came just two days after a knife attack in the northern port city of Hamburg. A 26-year-old Palestinian killed one and injured six others when he went on a stabbing spree in a supermarket. Investigators said his motives remained unclear; however, he was a known Islamist who suffered from several psychological complications, according to Sky News.

Nightclub shootings have become common and a matter of concern in the United States too. In March this year, one man was killed and at least 15 other people were injured at the Cameo nightclub in Cincinnati, Ohio after a gunman opened fire in the club. More than one gunman was involved in the shooting, according to the Cincinnati police. The club owners had voluntarily surrendered their liquor license after the incident.

One of the worst mass shootings in the history of U.S. took place on June 12, 2016, in an Orlando nightclub where a gunman opened fire early morning, killing 49 people and injuring another 53. The attacker, Omar Mateen shot and killed party-goers at the Pulse nightclub in Orlando with an assault rifle. He fired over dozens of rounds and even took some people hostage. The gunman had pledged allegiance to the Islamic State group (ISIS), according to the authorities.</s>Policemen stand in front of the Grey nightclub in Konstanz (Constance), southern Germany, where a gunman opened fire, killing one and wounding four people before being shot by police, on July 30, 2017.

BERLIN: A gunman opened fire at a packed nightclub in southern Germany yesterday morning, killing one and wounding four before being shot by police, authorities said.

The 34-year-old man, identified as an Iraqi national, "was critically injured in a shoot-out with police officers as he left the disco, and later succumbed to his wounds in hospital," police said in a statement.

"We're not assuming that this is an act of terrorist violence," police spokesman Fritz Bezikofer told rolling news channel NTV.

"The events in the disco and all the links are somewhat clearer and they actually rule out a terror background," he said, adding that the gunman was not an asylum seeker and had been living in Germany for some time.

Another police source said he could have been motivated by personal relationship issues.

Officers received emergency calls from terrified clubbers around 4.30am local time as the man began shooting in the nightclub heaving with "several hundred" people, said police.

One person was killed on the spot and three others seriously wounded in the club called "Grey", in an industrial zone in the city of Constance.

Shortly after the gunman left the building, he was shot by police. One officer was also injured in the exchange of fire.

Terrified clubbers had either fled the building or found a place to hide, police said, adding that the danger was over.

A witness told national news agency DPA that the attacker was shooting randomly at clubbers around him.

"The club was jam-packed," added the unnamed man, who said he had seen the attacker.

The shooting came just two days after Germany was shaken by a knife attack in the northern city of Hamburg.

A 26-year-old Palestinian had killed one and injured six in an assault at a supermarket. He was a known Islamist with psychological problems and investigators say his motives remain unclear.</s>One person has been killed in a shooting inside a nightclub in southern Germany.

Police said the shooting in Konstanz, in Baden-Wurttemberg state, also left three people seriously injured.

The dpa news agency said one person was killed by the gunman when he opened fire.

The gunman then fled, was shot by police and died later in hospital.

A police officer was also injured in the exchange of gunfire.

The motive for the shooting remains unclear, police added.</s>Two people were killed and three others were seriously injured when a 34-year-old man opened fire in a nightclub in the southern German city of Konstanz on Sunday morning. The suspect suffered life-threatening injuries in a gunfight with police officers outside the music venue after they had rushed to the scene shortly after the incident. The attack took place outside Grey club on Max-Stromeyer-Strasse.

In the exchange of fire between the gunman and the police one of the police personnel also sustained minor injuries. Issuing an official statement about the shootout the German Police Police said that special commando forces and a police helicopter had been deployed in the city, as it was not yet known if the suspect had accomplices.

The suspect has been taken to hospital. The motive for the shooting is yet to be established. The shooting came just two days after Germany was shaken by a knife attack in the northern port city of Hamburg. A 26-year-old Palestinian had killed one and injured six in an assault at a supermarket. Officials said he was an Islamist known to security forces and he had was psychologically unstable. Germany has seen an influx of attacks mostly by lone wolves inspired by the ideologies of the Islamic States. The country has absorbed a huge inflow of refugee population from middle east countries in the past year.

For all the latest World News, download Indian Express App</s>VIENNA — A shooting in a German discotheque claimed two lives Sunday, including that of the gunman, and wounded four people, three of them seriously, police said.

A tweet by police in the town of Konstanz in Germany’s southwestern Baden-Wurttemberg state said one person was killed and three were seriously wounded in the early-morning shooting. A subsequent exchange of fire on the street with the gunman left a policeman with non-life-threatening wounds and the gunman in critical condition. The gunman died later in the hospital.

The dpa news agency cited an unnamed police official as saying investigators have turned up no evidence of terrorism as a motive and believe the suspect was acting alone.

Police identified him as an Iraqi citizen, 37, who had lived in Konstanz for some time. The man, whom they did not name, was known to them because of various offenses, police said without elaborating.</s>One person has been killed and three others seriously injured after a gunman opened fire at a nightclub in Germany.

Early Reports indicate that the incident began around 4.30am this morning in the city of Konstanz.

We will be bringing you the latest as it happens on this breaking news story.</s>Two people have been killed and four wounded in a nightclub shooting in the German city of Konstanz. Police have ruled out a connection to terrorism. The shooting began at 4:30 a.m. on Sunday, with clubbers at the Grey nightclub making frantic calls to emergency services. The gunman, a 34-year-old Iraqi national who had been living in the Konstanz region for 15 years, was shot by police after leaving the disco immediately following the shootings, The Local reported. It is believed that the gunman was motivated to carry out the attack by personal issues, with police saying it could be the result of a “relationship dispute.”

In addition to police, it is also understood that special forces were mobilized to contain the gunman, with no fatal casualties suffered by police in their firefight with the perpetrator, but a police officer is reported to have been injured, according to the Daily Mail. It is thought that the policeman’s life was only saved by the helmet he was wearing, with the equipment deflecting a bullet which struck the officer. The nightclub was packed at the time of the shooting, with Konstanz’s location on the Swiss border drawing clubbers from both countries, and a student night believed to have been taking place. The attack comes just days after an attack in Hamburg on Friday, when a 26-year-old Palestinian Islamist stabbed a person to death in a supermarket and injured several others.

Witnesses in the nightclub have been relating their accounts of the horror that unfolded this morning, describing the gunman’s victims being “covered in blood,” and a barman describing how he opened an emergency exit allowing clubbers to make an escape. Other witnesses have detailed how they hid in the bathrooms to escape the shooting.

Local police have taken to social media to stress that there is currently no danger in Konstanz following the gunman’s death.

While the gunman’s motives are still unknown, it is thought that it may have something to do with events which took place at the disco earlier in the evening, stated Fritz Bezikofer, a spokesman for the Konstanz police, according to Reuters. The BBC reported that the attacker was armed with an M16 assault rifle and appeared to have knowledge of the use of such weaponry. The only death reported so far, other than the gunman, is a doorman for the club.

The shooting will make many remember the events of the 2016 Pulse nightclub shooting, which saw 50 people killed, and of the 2016 Munich shooting, which killed 10. Police are currently investigating the Konstanz shooting, aiming to confirm the motives behind the attack.</s>An Iraq-born gunman died in a shootout with German police early Sunday after killing one person in a nightclub in the southern city of Konstanz, police said, ruling out terrorism as a motive.

"The motives of the man who acted alone are unclear," Konstanz police spokesman Fritz Bezikofer told broadcaster N-TV.

"We are still investigating but the circumstances surrounding the events at the disco in the evening before the shooting are a bit clearer and this led us to rule out a terrorism background."

The 34-year-old opened fire in the club in the early hours of Sunday, killing one person and injuring three others. He died in hospital of injuries suffered in a gunfight with police outside the venue. One policeman was also injured.

Police said the gunman had lived in Germany for a number of years and was not an asylum seeker. They added that a dispute among criminals may have led to the shooting in an industrial area of the city.

Police special forces were deployed in the city in the aftermath of the shooting as it was not clear if the suspect had acted alone or had accomplices.

On Friday, a failed asylum seeker killed one person and injured six others in the northern city of Hamburg. Officials said he was an Islamist known to security forces and he was psychologically unstable.</s>Nightclub shooting - one dead and three seriously injured

German police said there was a shooting incident at the Grey nightclub in the city of Konstanz.

A gunman opened fire in the packed club shooting several people, killing one and seriously injuring three others in the early hours of the morning.

The suspected gunman, said to be a 34-year-old man, was seriously injured in a gunfight with police as he attempted to flee the club at around 2.30am.

Police say the gunman has been killed.
A man shoots several people in a nightclub in Konstanz, Germany, killing one. The gunman was shot and killed by police.