Heavily armed police in canton Zurich arrested a gunman who’d opened fire outside a church yesterday morning in the town of Wald.
One 46-year-old man was hit in the leg and slightly injured.
Police soon arrested a 41 year-old man.
The motive of the shooting is being investigated, but police have ruled out an ideologically motivated attack.
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