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Three dead, 11 wounded after shooting at Austrian concert

Overnight shooting takes place near town of Nenzing, not far from border with Liechtenstein

A police investigator taking evidence at the scene of a shooting in Nenzing, Austria, where a man fatally shot two people and wounded eleven before killing himself. Photograph: Dietmar Mathis/AFP/Getty Images
A police investigator taking evidence at the scene of a shooting in Nenzing, Austria, where a man fatally shot two people and wounded eleven before killing himself. Photograph: Dietmar Mathis/AFP/Getty Images
Sun May 22 2016 - 12:10

A man shot dead two people and wounded 11 others before turning the gun on himself at a concert organised by a motorcycle club in western Austria on Sunday, a police spokeswoman said.

The shooting took place at around 3am (1am Irish time) at the concert in Nenzing, a market town near the border with Liechtenstein. Around 150 people attended the event.

The police spokeswoman said that after a row with his girlfriend, a 27-year-old man grabbed a gun from his car and fired randomly into the crowd. The girlfriend was unharmed.

The scene of a shooting in Nenzing, Austria, where a man fatally shot two people and wounded eleven before killing himself. Photograph: Dietmar Mathis/AFP/Getty Images
The scene of a shooting in Nenzing, Austria, where a man fatally shot two people and wounded eleven before killing himself. Photograph: Dietmar Mathis/AFP/Getty Images

Police said the full circumstances of the incident were not yet known and that investigations were ongoing.

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Reuters