<p>Two people were killed and seven others wounded when a gunman opened fire in a Swiss factory today, police said, adding the gunman also died.<br /><br /></p>.<p>"There are three dead and seven wounded, a number of them seriously," local police spokesman Simon Kopp was quoted as saying by news portal Blick.ch.<br /><br />The shooter was among those who died, he added without elaborating.<br /><br />Three helicopters from the Swiss emergency service REGA evacuated four seriously wounded people from the scene of the shooting at the Kronospan wood panel plant in Menznau, near Lucerne, a spokesman told AFP.<br /><br />A police statement said that the perimeter had been sealed off, and that a hotline had been set up for families and employees.<br /><br />A major police deployment was under way, the statement said, without giving details of the number of dead and injured.<br /><br />A witness quoted by the local newspaper the Luzerner Zeitung said that an individual had entered the factory canteen and opened fire.<br /><br />"This is a tragedy," Munzau's mayor, Adrian Duss, told AFP.<br /><br />Owned by Austrian group Kronospan, the factory is the top employer in Munzau, employing around 400 people.<br /><br />Switzerland has a longstanding tradition of gun ownership, and ranks third in the world for the number of guns per inhabitant, after the United States and Yemen.<br /><br />On January 2, a 33-year-old drifter wielding two weapons killed three women and wounded two men in the village of Daillon in southern Switzerland</p>
<p>Two people were killed and seven others wounded when a gunman opened fire in a Swiss factory today, police said, adding the gunman also died.<br /><br /></p>.<p>"There are three dead and seven wounded, a number of them seriously," local police spokesman Simon Kopp was quoted as saying by news portal Blick.ch.<br /><br />The shooter was among those who died, he added without elaborating.<br /><br />Three helicopters from the Swiss emergency service REGA evacuated four seriously wounded people from the scene of the shooting at the Kronospan wood panel plant in Menznau, near Lucerne, a spokesman told AFP.<br /><br />A police statement said that the perimeter had been sealed off, and that a hotline had been set up for families and employees.<br /><br />A major police deployment was under way, the statement said, without giving details of the number of dead and injured.<br /><br />A witness quoted by the local newspaper the Luzerner Zeitung said that an individual had entered the factory canteen and opened fire.<br /><br />"This is a tragedy," Munzau's mayor, Adrian Duss, told AFP.<br /><br />Owned by Austrian group Kronospan, the factory is the top employer in Munzau, employing around 400 people.<br /><br />Switzerland has a longstanding tradition of gun ownership, and ranks third in the world for the number of guns per inhabitant, after the United States and Yemen.<br /><br />On January 2, a 33-year-old drifter wielding two weapons killed three women and wounded two men in the village of Daillon in southern Switzerland</p>