BERLIN: Two people died in a shooting at a Mercedes-Benz factory in south-western Germany on Thursday, the company said.
Police had previously said that one person died and another was seriously injured.
Authorities said that one suspect had been detained.
“This morning, shots were fired on the factory premises in Sindelfingen,” a spokesperson for the Stuttgart prosecutor earlier said. “Two persons were injured, one of whom has since died.”
Investigators are working on the assumption that this was the act of a single perpetrator and that no individuals outside the factory were involved, according to the prosecutor’s office.
Police and emergency responders remained at the scene.
Police earlier confirmed on Twitter that one person had died and another was severely injured. They were not immediately available for further comment.
Mercedes-Benz produces its flagship S-Class luxury sedan at the location in Sindelfingen, located some 17 kilometers southwest of Stuttgart. Some 35,000 people are employed at the site, according to the company.
Mercedes confirmed an incident had taken place at the plant and that it was in touch with the authorities, without elaborating.
“We are in contact with the authorities and are trying to clarify the facts. The safety of the employees comes first,” the company said.
In 2012, a shooting at a factory site for technology firm 3M in the western German town of Hilden left one dead and four injured.
Shooting at Mercedes plant in Germany leaves 2 dead
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Shooting at Mercedes plant in Germany leaves 2 dead
- Investigators are working on the assumption that this was the act of a single perpetrator
- Mercedes-Benz produces its flagship S-Class luxury sedan at the location in Sindelfingen
Russia bombards Kyiv as Ukraine issues countrywide alert
- Ukraine’s air force warned “all of Ukraine is under a missile threat” after confirming Russian bombers were airborne
KYIV, Ukraine: Russian strikes on Ukraine’s capital and its suburbs killed at least three people, Kyiv’s mayor said Friday as the air force issued a countrywide missile warning.
“Three people died in the capital. Six people were wounded. Three of them were hospitalized,” Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko posted on Telegram.
Regional governor Mykola Kalashnyk urged people to stay in shelters until the air raid sirens lifted.
Ukraine’s air force warned “all of Ukraine is under a missile threat” after confirming Russian bombers were airborne.
In the western city of Lviv, the mayor said “critical infrastructure” was hit.
“All relevant services are working on the site, the fire is being extinguished,” Mayor Andriy Sadovy said.
The latest barrage comes after the US Embassy in Kyiv warned Thursday that a “potentially significant air attack” could occur at any time within the next several days.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky had echoed the rare warning in his evening address.
Hours before the attack, Moscow had slammed a post-war plan for European peacekeepers to be deployed to Ukraine and branded Kyiv and its allies an “axis of war.”
European leaders and US envoys have been engaged in a flurry of diplomacy seeking to finalize a plan to end the almost four-year-long conflict.
In its latest iteration, the proposal’s post-war guarantees for Ukraine include a US-led monitoring mechanism and a European multinational force to be deployed once the fighting stops.
Zelensky said Thursday that an agreement was “essentially ready for finalization at the highest level with the President of the United States” following talks between envoys in Paris this week.
Specific details, including about the size of the force and how it would engage, have not been made public.
