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Reuters
Reuters
Business
By Christina Amann and Ilona Wissenbach

Shooting at German Mercedes plant kills two; production halted

Ambulance cars are parked outside a Mercedes plant after a suspect was detained following a shooting at a Mercedes-Benz plant in Sindelfingen near Stuttgart, Germany, May 11, 2023. REUTERS/Tilman Blasshofer

A shooting at a Mercedes-Benz plant in the city of Sindelfingen in southwestern Germany left two men dead on Thursday, mounting pressure on Berlin to tighten the country's already-strict gun laws.

Police arrested the suspect, a 53-year-old man, who opened fire on the victims before security workers at the site, some 17 km (10.6 miles) southwest of Stuttgart, held him down and handed him over to authorities, police and the local prosecutor's office said in a statement.

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