ஸ்விட்ஜர்லாந்தில் மசூதிக்குள் முஸ்லீம் துப்பாக்கியால் சுட்டதில் பலர் படுகாயம்

ஸ்விட்ஜர்லாந்தை சேர்ந்த முஸ்லீம் ஒருவர் அங்குள்ள மசூதிக்குள் புகுந்து அங்கு பிரார்த்தனை செய்துகொண்டிருந்தவர்கள் மீது மிலிட்டர் ரைபிள் மூலம் சுட்டதில் பலர் படுகாயமடைந்தார்கள். ஒருவர் உயிருக்கு போராடிக்கொண்டுள்ளார்.

Gunman opens fire on Muslim worshippers
November 13, 2007 07:55pm

A LONE gunman used a military assault rifle to fire on a dozen worshipers at an Islamic centre in French-speaking Switzerland late today, injuring one seriously, police said today.

A 23-year-old local man, described by police as a practicing Swiss Muslim, was detained in connection with the attack.

Police had scrambled to intercept a man carrying a weapon openly on the streets of Bussigny-pres-Lausanne near the lakeside city of Lausanne, according to a police statement.

The man entered the centre and fired over a dozen rounds toward a prayer room, police spokesman Jean-Christophe Sauterel said.

"He injured one person seriously before worshipers immobilised him on the ground," police said.

Mr Sauterel said a possible motive for the shooting had not been established and that the man had acted alone.

The man used his military weapon and ammunition, police said.

Switzerland's militia system allows soldiers to keep their weapons and ammunition at home, which has become the object of controversy in the wealthy Alpine country following recent attacks and high suicide rates involving military weapons kept at home.

In 2004 in Lausanne, a man wielding a knife attacked a Muslim prayer leader and wounded three others at an Islamic centre.

He was not charged for the act after a judge ruled him unable to stand trial due to a psychological disorder.