{"id":122643,"date":"2026-08-30T09:20:28","date_gmt":"2026-08-30T09:20:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/122643\/"},"modified":"2026-08-30T09:20:28","modified_gmt":"2026-08-30T09:20:28","slug":"1-killed-5-injured-in-swiss-shooting-at-rave-police-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/122643\/","title":{"rendered":"1 killed, 5 injured in Swiss shooting at rave, police say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">A manhunt was underway early on Sunday after at least one person was killed and five others were injured in an early morning shooting at a rave in Switzerland, police said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;Possible motives as well as the exact circumstances of the crime are still unclear,&#8221; the Aargau Cantonal Police said on social media.<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"Michael Buholzer\/Keystone via AP - PHOTO: Armed police officers patrol in Aarau following a shooting during a rave event near Aarau, Switzerland, Sunday, Aug. 30, 2026.\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"960\" height=\"640\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"rounded-lg\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/https:\/\/media.zenfs.com\/en\/us.abcnews.gma.com\/6d71ca4a110d55d17a321532520d4fd7.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Michael Buholzer\/Keystone via AP &#8211; PHOTO: Armed police officers patrol in Aarau following a shooting during a rave event near Aarau, Switzerland, Sunday, Aug. 30, 2026.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">A 22-year-old woman died at the scene in the Schachen district of Aarau, a northern Swiss town, police said. Four men and a woman, who are all between 24 and 27 years old, were in the hospital on Sunday with injuries ranging from minor to severe, police said.<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"Michael Buholzer\/Keystone via AP - PHOTO: Police officers patrol a street in downtown Aarau, Switzerland Sunday, Aug. 30, 2026, following a shooting.\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"960\" height=\"640\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"rounded-lg\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/https:\/\/media.zenfs.com\/en\/us.abcnews.gma.com\/f745785d310c439e24505b1ad147848f.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Michael Buholzer\/Keystone via AP &#8211; PHOTO: Police officers patrol a street in downtown Aarau, Switzerland Sunday, Aug. 30, 2026, following a shooting.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">All of the victims live in Switzerland, police said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Police told ABC News that the large techno event at the Schachen horse racing track had attracted some 3,500 people. Shots rang out between about 2:30 a.m. and 3 a.m., police said.<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"Michael Buholzer\/Keystone via AP - PHOTO: A general view shows the area of Schachen horse racing track, where a shooting occurred earlier during a rave event, in Aarau, Switzerland, Sunday, Aug. 30, 2026.\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"960\" height=\"640\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"rounded-lg\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/https:\/\/media.zenfs.com\/en\/us.abcnews.gma.com\/090476128d1fb5c0769a87767922d5d9.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Michael Buholzer\/Keystone via AP &#8211; PHOTO: A general view shows the area of Schachen horse racing track, where a shooting occurred earlier during a rave event, in Aarau, Switzerland, Sunday, Aug. 30, 2026.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Police said that the horse racing track, along with a swimming pool and a sports field, had been cordoned off following the shooting.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;Major police operation underway,&#8221; police said. &#8220;Stay away from the area.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">ABC News&#8217; Rashid Haddou and Dragana Jovanovic contributed to this report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A manhunt was underway early on Sunday after at least one person was killed and five others were&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":122644,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[4],"tags":[1431,59745,51221,59781,59782,59780,59779,22432,41,17],"class_list":["post-122643","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-switzerland","tag-1431","tag-aarau","tag-ap","tag-ap-photo","tag-aug-30","tag-keystone","tag-michael-buholzer","tag-sunday","tag-swiss","tag-switzerland"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ch\/117183724311412233","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122643","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=122643"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122643\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/122644"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122643"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=122643"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=122643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}