Three people were shot and injured in an "ongoing situation" near an Islamic center in Zurich, Switzerland, according to police. The gunman, from the nearby town of Uster, had stormed into the Islamic centre near the main train station in Switzerland’s financial capital and opened fire on people praying, wounding three men, whose condition was said to be improving on Tuesday. It was not immediately clear whether the Islamic centre or any of the other businesses registered buildings nearby, were the target of the attack, or what any motive might have been. READ MORE: Swiss politician Christoph Blocher escapes knife attack uninjured

Two thirds of Switzerland’s 8.3 million residents identify as Christian but the nation has been wrestling with the role of Islam as its Muslim population has risen to 5 percent, swelled by the arrival of immigrants from the former Yugoslavia. In 2009, a nationwide vote backed a constitutional ban on new minarets. “All Muslims are of course shocked that people praying came under fire,” Onder Gunes, spokesman for the Federation of Islamic Organisations in Switzerland, said before the shooter’s background became known.
Three people are shot by a gunman at an Islamic centre near the Zürich Hauptbahnhof train station. A manhunt was conducted for the assailant, a 24-year-old Swiss citizen of Ghanian descent, whose body was found close to the Islamic centre.