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UPDATED: Swiss police arrest suspected chainsaw attacker

Swiss police on Tuesday tracked down and arrested a man believed to have carried out a chainsaw attack in a Schaffhausen office building which left several injured.

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Swiss chainsaw attacker still on the run

The man who injured several people on Monday morning after storming a Schaffhausen office building with a chainsaw is still on the run, police have said.

Accident

Swiss woman survives horrific crash unscathed

A 48-year-old woman had a lucky escape on Monday afternoon in an accident that demolished her car.

animal cruelty

Decapitated cat shocks residents of Swiss town

The gruesome discovery of a cat's head on a street in northern Switzerland has left residents uneasy.

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Two victims' wives held after stabbing deaths

A family dispute is suspected in the stabbing murder of a 56-year-old man and his 26-year-old son-in-law near the city of Schaffhausen in northeastern Switzerland, police said on Monday.

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Child survives plunge from fourth-storey flat

A four-year-old boy was lucky to escape death after he fell from a fourth-storey apartment in the canton of Schaffhausen while trying to recover a teddy bear, police said on Friday.

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Thieves don women’s swimsuits to pinch booze

Thieves wearing one-piece women’s bathing suits to hide stolen bottles of liquor were defrocked by Schaffhausen cantonal police this week.

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Police probe mystery Rhine Falls death

Schaffhausen cantonal police continue to investigate the death of an unidentified man who died near the Rhine Falls (Rheinfall) on Sunday.

collision

Witnesses sought in expat's train death

Fribourg cantonal police issued an appeal on Monday for witnesses following the death of an elderly expat at the train station in Romont, a small town northeast of Lausanne.

collision

Two men die in Vaud rail crossing collision

Two men died when a passenger train struck a car in a level crossing on Monday in Le Chenit, a town in the canton of Vaud’s Vallée de Joux.

Crime

Daughter admits to planning father's killing

<p class="MsoNormal">The 21-year-old woman who killed her father and seriously injured her mother on Tuesday said she had planned the murder beforehand. She said he had verbally abused her for years.</p> <p>&nbsp;</p>

Crime

Father stabbed to death by daughter

<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; color: #262626; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><span style="font-size: small;">A 52-year-old man was stabbed to death by his own daughter on Tuesday morning, shortly before the young woman turned against her mother.</span></span></p> <p>&nbsp;</p>

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Angry Swiss gunman targets furniture

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><span style="font-size: small;">A 53-year-old man has been arrested in Schaffhausen, northern Switzerland, after he fired several gun shots at furniture in his house, police said.&nbsp;</span></span></p> <p>&nbsp;</p>

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Suicide suspected as pilot rams mum's house

<p><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;">A Swiss pilot has flown his small airplane into his mother&rsquo;s house near Schaffhausen, northern Switzerland, in what reports say appears to have been a suicide.</span>&nbsp;</p>