Rot am See: Mother and father among six dead after family shooting in Germany
"Six people including a mother and father have died after a family shooting in a town in Germany, police have said.
The bodies of three women and three men were found in and behind a building which houses a bar.
Two others were injured in Rot am See, northeast of Stuttgart, one of whom has life-threatening injuries.
Two children aged 12 and 14 were threatened.
A 26-year-old German citizen called police and said he had killed several people, regional police chief Reiner Moeller said.
Officers kept him on the line and arrested him at the scene a few minutes later.
His parents are among the dead."
Man shoots dead six of his family in Germany
"The victims were aged between 36 and 69, the police in the state of Baden-Württemberg said.
Two other relatives were injured, one critically.
The police said the suspect had also threatened two teenage members of his family - but that the boys were not harmed."
"The shooting happened at around 12:45 (11:45 GMT) in a building in the Bahnhofstrasse that features the Deutscher Kaiser restaurant.
The area has been sealed off. A team of forensic scientists are currently working at the scene.
Rot am See is a small town of some 5,000 residents in the Schwäbisch Hall district north-east of Stuttgart, and local reports say the suspect is in his 30s."
