{"id":1177018,"date":"2026-08-30T09:52:16","date_gmt":"2026-08-30T09:52:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/1177018\/"},"modified":"2026-08-30T09:52:16","modified_gmt":"2026-08-30T09:52:16","slug":"one-person-killed-and-five-wounded-in-shooting-at-rave-party-in-switzerland-police-say-switzerland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/1177018\/","title":{"rendered":"One person killed and five wounded in shooting at rave party in Switzerland, police say | Switzerland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">One person has been killed and five others wounded in a shooting at a rave party in northern <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/switzerland\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" data-component=\"auto-linked-tag\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Switzerland<\/a>, local police said on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">\u201cThe search for the perpetrators, whose identities are currently unknown, is under way,\u201d they said on X, adding that the motives and exact circumstances were not yet known.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">The incident happened in Aarau, west of Zurich, prompting a \u201clarge-scale\u201d police response, officers said on X.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">Swiss newspaper Blick reported on its website that the shots were fired before 3am on the sidelines of the Aarauer Rave.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">About 3,500 people attended the annual techno party between 3pm on Saturday and 2am on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Police officers patrol a street in downtown Aarau on Sunday. Photograph: Michael Buholzer\/EPA<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">Police spokesperson Vanessa Rumpold was quoted as telling the newspaper that the shooting happened at the racecourse where the event was held.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">\u201cSeveral shots were fired within a large group of people,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">One witness reported \u201cbursts of gunfire\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\"> The subheading and text of this article were amended on 30 August 2026. Aarau is west of Z\u00fcrich, not north as an earlier version said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"One person has been killed and five others wounded in a shooting at a rave party in northern&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1177019,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2],"tags":[748,393,4884,12,1144,712,16,15,1764],"class_list":["post-1177018","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","tag-britain","tag-england","tag-great-britain","tag-news","tag-northern-ireland","tag-scotland","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-wales"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/117183850229284838","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1177018","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1177018"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1177018\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1177019"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1177018"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1177018"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1177018"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}