A manhunt is under way after a 22-year-old Italian woman was killed and five other people were injured in a shooting at an event in Switzerland, police say.<\/p>\n
The attack is believed to have happened at a rave in the early hours of Sunday and some of the victims were seriously injured.<\/p>\n
In a post on X, Italy’s prime minister, Giorgia Meloni, said the woman who died was an Italian named Maria Spinelli.<\/p>\n
“My thoughts also go to the other injured, including two Italian citizens, and to all the people involved, ” she wrote.<\/p>\n
Police said “night-time shots” were reported in Schachen, in Aarau, the capital of the northern Swiss<\/a> canton of Aargau, and that a major operation has been launched.<\/p>\n Officers urged the public to stay away from the area and said the local horse racing track, swimming pool and sports field have been cordoned off.<\/p>\n The “Aarau Rave VOL. 7” was taking place at the track at the time of the incident, Swiss public broadcaster SRF reported.<\/p>\n A witness told Swiss newspaper Blick that shots were fired \u200caround 2.30am local time (1.30am UK time) and that he tried unsuccessfully to resuscitate a woman who was bleeding from a gunshot wound.<\/p>\n The 22-year-old woman died at the scene, police said, while four men and one woman, aged between 24 and 27, were in hospital with injuries ranging from minor to severe.<\/p>\n All victims are Swiss residents.<\/p>\n People at the rave initially mistook the shots for fireworks until somebody shouted “everyone down”, according to Blick.<\/p>\n It said the shooting happened right after the event finished.<\/p>\n Police said the perpetrator’s motives and the exact circumstances of the shooting were still unclear.<\/p>\n Read more from Sky News: The organisers’ website \u2060advertised the event as a techno party at a covered horse racetrack, with 3,500 people expected The Aargau Racing Club, which runs the horse tracking track, expressed shock at the shooting.<\/p>\n “We extend our deepest sympathy to all those affected and their families, who are facing this difficult and trying situation,” it said on its website.<\/p>\n “We would like to thank the emergency responders and all others involved who worked professionally and with dedication on the scene.”<\/p>\n Swiss DJ Tekibo, who performed at the rave, wrote on Instagram that “what happened at Aarauer rave is absolutely heartbreaking”.<\/p>\n “Techno and raves are supposed to be a place for freedom and safety, never a place where something like this happens,” he added.<\/p>\n The town of Aarau, which has about 22,300 residents, is around 28 miles west of Zurich.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A manhunt is under way after a 22-year-old Italian woman was killed and five other people were injured…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":122920,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[4],"tags":[59789,31795,29898,13778,41,17,59870],"class_list":["post-122919","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-switzerland","tag-aargau","tag-blick","tag-giorgia-meloni","tag-italian","tag-swiss","tag-switzerland","tag-the-aargau-racing-club"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ch\/117186885439531910","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122919","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=122919"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122919\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/122920"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122919"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=122919"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=122919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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Why is Andy Burnham all over your social media?<\/a><\/p>\n
to attend.<\/p>\n