Two shot dead as suspect apprehended by Swiss police

A man in Switzerland got arrested for shooting and killing two people and injuring another person in the town of Sion.

Police in Valais area said that there were gunshots in two different places on Monday.

A 34-year-old woman was murdered in a parking lot just after 7:00 am, and a 41-year-old man was also killed shortly after.

The man who was thought to have shot a gun was found north of Sion at 3:43pm after looking for him for eight hours.

Valais police got a call at 07:15 about someone getting hurt in a car park on Rue Oscar-Bider.

Gunshots were heard at the Sarosa painting company and another location in the Ronquoz and Potence areas, according to a local newspaper, Le Nouvelliste.

The police said a woman was shot and died.

“A little while later, a man was killed by a gunshot, and a woman was hurt by a gunshot too. ”

Both of them lived in the Valais area. A 49-year-old woman from Valais also got hurt.

The police caught and arrested the suspect in St-Léonard on Monday afternoon.

The police put up barriers on the roads around Valais to stop the suspected shooter from fleeing the country.

Sion is a town near the borders of Italy and France.

There are a lot of police in the town, and some are armed and standing at the places where the crimes happened.

The police are looking into a murder case.

Switzerland, a place with about nine million people, has a lot of people owning guns.

A group called Small Arms Survey keeps track of how many guns people have around the world. They say there are about 2. 3 million firearms owned by regular people.