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Gunman Kills 1, Injures 3 in German Nightclub; Terrorism Ruled Out

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FILE - People walk along a street in the southern German town of Konstanz, Jan. 17, 2015. A shooting at a nightclub in the city left one person dead, three more injured. Police later fatally wounded the suspected gunman.
FILE - People walk along a street in the southern German town of Konstanz, Jan. 17, 2015. A shooting at a nightclub in the city left one person dead, three more injured. Police later fatally wounded the suspected gunman.

A gunman who killed one person and injured three others in a nightclub in southern Germany on Sunday was an Iraqi citizen who had lived in the country for a long time and was not an asylum seeker, police said, ruling out terrorism as a motive.

Konstanz police spokesman Fritz Bezikofer told the n-tv broadcaster that after an initial investigation into the events surrounding the shooting at the nightclub in Konstanz on the border with Switzerland investigators ruled out terrorism.

“The motives of the man who acted alone are unclear,” he said. “We are still investigating but the circumstances surrounding the events at the disco in the evening before the shooting are a bit clearer and this led us to rule out a terrorism background.”

The 34-year-old man was fatally wounded in a gunfight with police officers outside the music venue after they rushed to the scene shortly after the incident began around 0230 GMT. He died later in hospital. One police officer was also injured in the exchange of fire.

On Friday, a failed asylum seeker killed one person and injured six others in the northern city of Hamburg. Officials said he was an Islamist known to security forces and he was psychologically unstable.

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