Five injured in chainsaw attack in Swiss town

Old town of Schaffhausen has been sealed off as police search for perpetrator of the attack

Philip Oltermann in Berlin
Monday 24 July 2017 12.58 BST

A man who injured several people with a chainsaw when he stormed the office of an insurance company in the Swiss town of Schaffhausen on Monday morning remains at large as over a hundred police officers are engaged in a man-hunt along the Swiss-German border.

One person was seriously hurt and four others sustained light injuries when Swiss citizen Franz Wrousis, 51, went on a rampage at the offices of CSS, a leading health insurance company. Authorities on Monday afternoon downgraded earlier reports of two victims with serious injuries.

Police believe the attack was directly targeted at the insurance company but could not comment further on a possible motive while the attacker remained on the run.

“This is not an attack against a hypothetical person. This is clearly against people from the insurer,” Major Ravi Landolt of the police told a news conference.

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