Mechanics overpower killer at petrol station

Two mechanics were praised last night after overpowering and capturing a gunman who had earlier shot dead two people in northern Bavaria.

The mechanics were working at a petrol station in Bad Windsheim when the shooter entered the shop and threatened employees with a gun, police said. “Thanks to the courageous intervention of these employees, the perpetrator was able to be stopped,” Joachim Hermann, Bavaria’s interior minister, told a news conference.

The suspect, a 47-year-old from the nearby town of Ansbach named as Bernd G, not previously known to the authorities, was detained by police after a manhunt in which four helicopters were used.