(http://msnbcmedia.msn.com/j/MSNBC/Components/Photo/_new/130103-swiss-shooting-4a.photoblog600.jpg)Denis Balibouse / ReutersPolice officers stand near a crime scene in the Swiss village of Daillon on Thursday after a gunman shot five people.By ReutersGENEVA -- Three people were killed and two wounded late Wednesday when a gunman opened fire in a Swiss village, police said.
The suspect was shot and wounded after threatening officers who tried to arrest him in Daillon, according to police in the Swiss canton of Valais. He was later taken into custody. No police officers were wounded during the incident.
French-language Swiss website 20minutes.ch (http://www.20min.ch/ro/) reported that the gunman was a resident of the village aged about 30 who was armed with an assault rifle and had been drinking heavily.
It quoted a villager as saying one of the dead was a woman aged in her 80s.
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I hope he is charged to court and killed as well.No excuse for being drunk at all