After 2-day Int’l manhunt, Swiss chainsaw attacker arrested

Two days after an international arrest warrant was issued for the arrest of a 50-year-old chain-saw attacker, the suspect has been finally nabbed following a manhunt by police.

Reports say the suspect identified as Franz Wrousis who stormed into an insurance office wielding a chainsaw and wounded two staff members, in Thalwil, a town about 60 kilometres from Schaffhausen is now cooling his heels in police net after a manhunt by Swiss and German police.

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According to Swiss police, the suspect is a known drifter with a criminal record who mostly lived in the woods and it is not yet clear what may have prompted the man to assault the two office workers, one of whom was badly hurt.

Swiss authorities said that after the incident, two other customers in the office were treated for shock, while a fifth person was hurt during the police response, at the CSS offices in Schaffhausen, a quiet medieval town of 36,000 residents.

 

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