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Suspect arrested after 2 people were killed in a shooting in the southern Swiss town of Sion

BERLIN (AP) — Police say two people have been killed and one was wounded when a gunman fired shots at two locations in a southern Swiss town. Authorities were alerted to a wounded person in a parking lot in Sion, the capital of Valais canton on Monday morning. They found a woman with a fatal gunshot wound. A man was shot and killed a few minutes later and a woman was wounded. Police launched a manhunt for a 36-year-old believed to be the gunman. The suspect was caught on Monday afternoon. He appeared to have known his victims, but didn’t give further details or specify where he opened fire. Local prosecutors opened a murder investigation.

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