Geneva, May 10 (EFE).– Five people were killed in a shooting in the Swiss town of Würenlingen, police said Sunday, adding that the lone shooter was among the victims and that apparently a family dispute had sparked the rampage.

Argovie police chief Michael Leutpold at a press conference confirmed the death toll, adding that the 36-year-old shooter, the father of three and who had been convicted for another matter in his birth canton of Schwyz, was among the dead.

The victims included a 58-year-old man and a 57-year-old woman, the inlaws of the killer, and a brother-in-law, 32.

Another man, 46 years old and not yet identified by authorities, was also shot dead and police at present do not know if he was involved in the incident or merely an unlucky passerby.

The killer, who was separated from his wife, committed suicide after killing the other four people, police said.

The incident occurred in a residential part of Würenlingen after 11 p.m. on Saturday with neighbors calling police when they heard gunfire from the home.

This is the latest such incident to occur in Switzerland, where in recent years there have been at least seven other similar cases, including the “Zug Massacre” on Sept. 27, 2001, in which a man killed 14 people in the Zug canton parliament building before taking his own life.

The Alpine country has one of the highest per capita weapons possession rates in the world with 3.4 million firearms and 8 million people, according to figures compiled by the Small Arms Survey organization in 2007. EFE