Swiss chainsaw attacker on the run amid international manhunt

Record ID: 904013

  • Title: Swiss chainsaw attacker on the run amid international manhunt
  • Date: 25th July 2017
  • Summary: NEUHAUSEN AM RHEINFALL, SWITZERLAND (JULY 25, 2017) (REUTERS) VARIOUS OF VEHICLES CROSSING SWISS-GERMAN BORDER ROAD SIGN READING (German / French) "CUSTOMS" SWISS FLAG SEEN BEHIND A TREE / GERMAN FLAG NEAR BORDER GERMAN FLAG NEAR BORDER GERMAN POLICE HELICOPTER FLYING AND SEARCHING ABOVE FIELD HELICOPTER IN SKY HELICOPTER ABOVE FIELD JESTETTEN, GERMANY (JULY 25, 2017) (REUTERS) VARIOUS OF GERMAN POLICE HELICOPTER FLYING OVER FIELD, ELECTRIC POSTS IN BACKGROUND HELICOPTER IN SKY TREES IN FIELD VARIOUS OF HELICOPTER IN SKY SWISS POLICE HELICOPTER / AREA POLICE ARE SEARCHING HELICOPTER HOVERING CLOSER TO GROUND AND DISAPPEARING BEHIND TREES
  • Embargoed: 8th August 2017 16:01
  • Keywords: international manhunt search chainsaw attacker police Swiss-German border
  • Location: NEUHAUSEN AM RHEINFALL, SWITZERLAND/ JESTETTEN, GERMANY
  • City: NEUHAUSEN AM RHEINFALL, SWITZERLAND/ JESTETTEN, GERMANY
  • Country: Switzerland
  • Topics: Crime/Law/Justice,Crime
  • Reuters ID: LVA0016R7UWQV
  • Aspect Ratio: 16:9
  • Story Text: Police hunted on Tuesday (July 25) for a chainsaw-wielding loner who mostly lived in the woods, a day after he stormed into an insurance office in the Swiss town of Schaffhausen and wounded two staff members.
    Police have identified the suspect as 50-year-old Franz Wrousis, a drifter with a criminal record, and warned residents that he could still be armed for attack.
    A spokeswoman for German federal police said that one of their helicopters was being used in the area as part of the manhunt.
    It was not clear what may have prompted the man to assault the two office workers, one of whom was badly hurt. CSS, whose office Wrousis stormed, said he was a client.
    Authorities issued an international arrest warrant for the suspect as the police carried out an intense search.
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