Police in Switzerland are conducting a manhunt for a chainsaw attacker who injured five people, including at least one seriously.
Authorities identified the attacker as 51-year-old Franz Wrousis. He has no fixed address, but lives in a forest.
Police have said they do not believe Monday’s attack in the historic town of Schaffhausen is terrorism related, but warned the public that the man at large is “dangerous.”
Sticher described him as a 190 centimeter-tall (6 ft 2 in-tall) bald white man, while police described him as a man of “untidy appearance.”
The attack began in an insurance office, Sticher said, and a Volkswagen van belonging to Wrousis has been found.
A journalist in Schaffhausen, Marco Latzer, told CNN that helicopters also responded at the scene.
He said that the incident was a shock to the people of Schaffhausen, an old town near the Swiss-German border.
“It’s kind of a big thing for this town of course and many people here are really shocked,” he said. “It’s a very peaceful place … a quiet place normally.”
(CNN/AP)
