Police: Northern German Town Official Killed in Murder-Suicide
A gunman shot and killed a top official of the northern German town of Hamelin Friday before turning the firearm on himself, police said.
"The perpetrator killed district administrator Ruediger Butte and then killed himself," a police spokesman said.
Gunfire broke out Friday morning at the main administrative building in the community of 60,000 people.
Police said Butte was killed in his office.
Information about the identity of the gunman or his possible motives was not immediately available.
The town is best known for the folk tale of the Pied Piper, later popularised by the Brothers Grimm.
Source: Agence France Presse
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