Shootings Germany

Interior Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble, key negotiator of German unification, was reported in satisfactory condition Saturday after surgeons removed a would-be assassin's bullet lodged near his spine. A 37-year-old man described by police as an emotionally disturbed drug abuser was being held in connection with the shooting Friday night at a campaign rally in the Black Forest town of Oppenau.

A spurned suitor killed himself a day after fatally shooting six members of a Turkish family in the northern German city of Bielefeld. The man shot himself in the head after leading police on a chase, authorities said. Police said the gunman, a 34-year-old Turk identified only as Mehmet K., shot three women and three men in their apartment Tuesday night, apparently after the family turned down his request to marry one of the women. Mehmet K.

A gunman opened fire on Interior Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble at a campaign rally Friday, seriously wounding one of Germany's most prominent political figures, police said. Schaeuble, key negotiator of the treaty reunifying East and West Germany and one of Chancellor Helmut Kohl's closest associates, was shot in the head and throat before police overpowered the assailant. A bodyguard also was wounded.

Israeli security guards opened fire Wednesday on club-wielding Kurds who had stormed the Israeli Consulate here, killing three protesters, wounding 15 and provoking fears of escalating violence among the despairing, stateless people.

A spurned suitor killed himself a day after fatally shooting six members of a Turkish family in the northern German city of Bielefeld. The man shot himself in the head after leading police on a chase, authorities said. Police said the gunman, a 34-year-old Turk identified only as Mehmet K., shot three women and three men in their apartment Tuesday night, apparently after the family turned down his request to marry one of the women. Mehmet K.

Left-wing terrorists firing across the Rhine River sprayed the U.S. Embassy with bullets Wednesday night, causing minor damage and no injuries, authorities said. The Red Army Faction claimed responsibility for the attack and linked it to the Persian Gulf War in a letter found in a plastic bag near a house across the river from the embassy, according to the federal prosecutor's office. No arrests were made.

Israeli security guards opened fire Wednesday on club-wielding Kurds who had stormed the Israeli Consulate here, killing three protesters, wounding 15 and provoking fears of escalating violence among the despairing, stateless people.

Left-wing terrorists firing across the Rhine River sprayed the U.S. Embassy with bullets Wednesday night, causing minor damage and no injuries, authorities said. The Red Army Faction claimed responsibility for the attack and linked it to the Persian Gulf War in a letter found in a plastic bag near a house across the river from the embassy, according to the federal prosecutor's office. No arrests were made.

Interior Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble, key negotiator of German unification, was reported in satisfactory condition Saturday after surgeons removed a would-be assassin's bullet lodged near his spine. A 37-year-old man described by police as an emotionally disturbed drug abuser was being held in connection with the shooting Friday night at a campaign rally in the Black Forest town of Oppenau.

A gunman opened fire on Interior Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble at a campaign rally Friday, seriously wounding one of Germany's most prominent political figures, police said. Schaeuble, key negotiator of the treaty reunifying East and West Germany and one of Chancellor Helmut Kohl's closest associates, was shot in the head and throat before police overpowered the assailant. A bodyguard also was wounded.