METZ, France - French and German authorities launched a cross-border search yesterday for a gunman who killed five people in a pre-dawn rampage that started outside a disco bar in Germany, French police said.
German police said one of the dead was a 41-year-old British woman who died alongside her French husband at their apartment in Dillingen, Germany. Their 11-year-old daughter was injured.
About 100 police, backed by a helicopter, tracked the armed man, who fled in a car to an abandoned barracks on the French side of the border at Sierck-les-Bains, where gunshots were heard.
The gunman had shot four people outside the bar and in an apartment building in Dillingen, before crossing into France and killing a fifth person in Sierck-les-Bains, French police said. German police would not confirm that the fifth killing in France was linked to the same gunman, but did add that four others were injured in the rampage.
In the Dillingen bar a 41-year-old employee was killed and four other people were injured, one of whom later died.