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Urgent: Gunman kills 2 at western Austria concert

Xinhua, May 22, 2016 Adjust font size:

A man shot dead two people and injured 11 others at a concert in western Austria, the police said on Sunday.

The man, 27, had had a row with his girlfriend in the town of Nenzing in

the state of Vorarlberg during the night, the police said.

He fetched a gun from his car at around 3 a.m. (0100 GMT) and started shooting indiscriminately at the 150 people attending the concert. Endi