Five people shot dead in Austria

Vienna - At least five people were killed in the village of Mauterndorf, about 100 km south of Salzburg, Austria, yesterday after…

Vienna - At least five people were killed in the village of Mauterndorf, about 100 km south of Salzburg, Austria, yesterday after a man ran amok with a pistol, police said.

The man shot dead a neighbour, his neighbour's wife and their four-year-old daughter. Two people who tried to intervene were also shot dead before he killed himself.

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