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From: Jennifer Lanzinger

Police officers are investigating the scene after a shooting at the airport barracks. An Austrian guard was killed by her superior in a shootout. © Florian Wieser/dpa

A young man was shot dead by his superior on Friday morning at a barracks in Wiener Neustadt. The soldier had previously fired several shots.

Vienna – The soldier fired several shots with an assault rifle at the Wiener Neustadt airport barracks on Friday morning, after which the man’s superior shot him with a pistol. As Austrian defense ministry spokesman Michael Bauer told the German news agency, the Austrian guard was killed in the shootout with his superior.

Shooting in barracks in Wiener Neustadt: Austrian soldier killed by superior

According to initial information, the incident was preceded by a dispute, Bauer said. The supervisor was injured in the discussion. According to the spokesman, the deceased was born in 2002 and did his military service in Wiener Neustadt in Lower Austria.

A fatal accident also occurred in Berlin on Friday night. In one apartment, emergency services discovered a dead woman and an injured man. Also found a chainsaw.

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