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Germany Shooting: Several Wounded As Man 'Opens Fire In Cinema Complex' In Viernheim

Darpan News Desk IANS, 23 Jun, 2016 07:46 AM
    Several people have been wounded in a shooting at a cinema complex in Germany, according to prelimenary reports. 
     
    Police say the incident took place at a movie theater in a town in southwestern Germany which probably involves a weapon.
     
    Police spokeswoman Christiane Kobus said she couldn’t give further details of what was happening at the Kinopolis movie theater in the town of Viernheim.
     
    She would not confirm unsourced German media reports that an armed man had entered the movie theater and fired at least one shot.

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