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UPDATED: Swiss police arrest suspected chainsaw attacker

Wed, 26 Jul 2017 10:27:16 +0200

Swiss police on Tuesday tracked down and arrested a man believed to have carried out a chainsaw attack in a Schaffhausen office building which left several injured.

Swiss chainsaw attacker still on the run

Tue, 25 Jul 2017 12:35:10 +0200

The man who injured several people on Monday morning after storming a Schaffhausen office building with a chainsaw is still on the run, police have said.

Swiss woman survives horrific crash unscathed

Tue, 31 May 2016 11:10:07 +0200

A 48-year-old woman had a lucky escape on Monday afternoon in an accident that demolished her car.

Decapitated cat shocks residents of Swiss town

Fri, 06 May 2016 13:08:32 +0200

The gruesome discovery of a cat's head on a street in northern Switzerland has left residents uneasy.

Two victims' wives held after stabbing deaths

Mon, 14 Dec 2015 21:36:53 +0100

A family dispute is suspected in the stabbing murder of a 56-year-old man and his 26-year-old son-in-law near the city of Schaffhausen in northeastern Switzerland, police said on Monday.

Child survives plunge from fourth-storey flat

Fri, 12 Jun 2015 11:26:35 +0200

A four-year-old boy was lucky to escape death after he fell from a fourth-storey apartment in the canton of Schaffhausen while trying to recover a teddy bear, police said on Friday.

Thieves don women’s swimsuits to pinch booze

Fri, 21 Jun 2013 02:12:00 +0200

Thieves wearing one-piece women’s bathing suits to hide stolen bottles of liquor were defrocked by Schaffhausen cantonal police this week.

Police probe mystery Rhine Falls death

Mon, 22 Apr 2013 11:35:00 +0200

Schaffhausen cantonal police continue to investigate the death of an unidentified man who died near the Rhine Falls (Rheinfall) on Sunday.

Witnesses sought in expat's train death

Mon, 25 Feb 2013 12:54:27 +0100

Fribourg cantonal police issued an appeal on Monday for witnesses following the death of an elderly expat at the train station in Romont, a small town northeast of Lausanne.

Two men die in Vaud rail crossing collision

Mon, 04 Feb 2013 22:22:00 +0100

Two men died when a passenger train struck a car in a level crossing on Monday in Le Chenit, a town in the canton of Vaud’s Vallée de Joux.

Daughter admits to planning father's killing

Thu, 28 Jul 2011 16:08:00 +0200

The 21-year-old woman who killed her father and seriously injured her mother on Tuesday said she had planned the murder beforehand. She said he had verbally abused her for years.

Father stabbed to death by daughter

Tue, 26 Jul 2011 12:51:52 +0200

A 52-year-old man was stabbed to death by his own daughter on Tuesday morning, shortly before the young woman turned against her mother.

Angry Swiss gunman targets furniture

Mon, 25 Jul 2011 13:18:00 +0200

A 53-year-old man has been arrested in Schaffhausen, northern Switzerland, after he fired several gun shots at furniture in his house, police said.

Suicide suspected as pilot rams mum's house

Tue, 19 Jul 2011 11:58:00 +0200

A Swiss pilot has flown his small airplane into his mother’s house near Schaffhausen, northern Switzerland, in what reports say appears to have been a suicide.