Two U.S. soldiers killed in the shooting Frankfurt Airport
Two soldiers were killed from the U.S. Air Force, was killed and two others seriously wounded on Wednesday when he was a young man from Kosovo fire on them at the airport in Frankfurt, West Germany.
And fired on the bus, the U.S. military while standing in front of the arrival hall the second largest airport in Germany, and on board U.S. soldiers arrived by air from England before heading to the U.S. base at Ramstein, 140 km from the airport.
The General Command of the U.S. Air Force in Germany in a statement: "kill Mlahan and two others wounded in a shooting today, Thursday, at the airport of Frankfurt International," the statement added that the German authorities arrested the shooter, and that an investigation of the incident, and the interior minister said the Hesse German Boris saw that a soldier was killed outside the bus and the other inside.
The German police have arrested inside the arrivals hall on the second shooter is supposed, a young man in the twenty-first session, originally from Kosovo, had been living in Frankfurt, according to Minister Ryan. The investigation began with the shooter. Police cordoned off the German site of the attack and the transfer of Jerihan to the hospital, did not say police spokesman Andrei Stormit the severity of injuries, nor the number of military personnel who were on the bus.
He was President Barack Obama regretted the incident and sadness following the attack, in a speech in front of reporters in the White House. Were made by German Chancellor Angela Merkel "sincere condolences to the families of the victims," during a press conference with Portuguese Foreign Minister Jose Socrates. She said that her government would do all it can to uncover the circumstances of the attack. He also Foreign Minister, Guido Westerwelle in Ukraine condemned the attack.
In Pristina, announced a senior security official told AFP on Wednesday that the young Kosovar origin, who shot and killed two U.S. Air Force in Frankfurt Airport Albany from the north of Kosovo, the source said on condition of anonymity, "according to our information called Corporal Aouka one of the Mitrovica region ( north), "he said" has no record, which means that he did not face problems with the law before, but we are still verifying. "
The Government of Kosovo for the condemnation of the work of the "ugly", and confirmed that the perpetrator acted "alone" and did not yet know the motives of the attack and said the newspaper "Der Spiegel" on its website that investigators tend to the hypothesis of a deliberate attack against U.S. soldiers, as they seek to verify the certificates confirmed that the striker shouted "Allahu Akbar" before opening fire. The Web site said investigators had found him on the arms and ammunition.
Frankfurt Airport is located about 120 km from the U.S. base at Ramstein in Germany. The Americans have several bases in the Frankfurt area used for the logistical support for operations in Afghanistan and Iraq.
Was planning the attacks of September 11, 2001 in the United States partly in Hamburg, northern Germany. In March 2010, four Islamist convicted of plotting against U.S. interests in Germany, after being accused that they were preparing to attack similar attack in 2001
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