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February 20, 2020

German Far-Right Gunman Kills 10 in Frankfurt Suburb
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In Germany, a gunman with a high-powered rifle opened fire on patrons at
two shisha bars in the town of Hanau Wednesday night, killing nine
people. The 43-year-old suspect then returned to his home and killed his
mother before turning a gun on himself. The attacks appeared to target
people of Turkish and Kurdish ancestry, and German federal investigators
said they're investigating the killings as a likely right-wing terror
attack. The killings came a week after German police arrested 12 members
of a far-right group and accused them of plotting to use semiautomatic
weapons to murder worshipers at mosques, in attacks that would mirror
those carried out by a white nationalist gunman in Christchurch, New
Zealand, last year.


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