Two U.S. airmen died and two were seriously injured when a bus transporting U.S. military personnel came under gunfire today at Frankfurt Airport, Europe’s third-busiest.
The incident took place at Terminal 2, and a young man was arrested outside the bus as a suspect, said Juergen Linker, a police spokesman, by phone today. The deaths and injuries were confirmed by Sarayuth Pinthong, a spokesman at the U.S. air base in Ramstein, Germany.
The airport is operating normally though car traffic has been diverted, a spokeswoman for Fraport AG, the airport’s operator, said by phone. She declined to be identified by name in accordance with the company’s policy.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel, speaking to reporters in Berlin, said the government will do “whatever is needed to determine what happened” in the “terrible event.”
To contact the reporters on this story: Aaron Kirchfeld in Frankfurt atakirchfeld@bloomberg.net; Tom Lavell in Frankfurt at tlavell@bloomberg.net
To contact the editor responsible for this story: Angela Cullen at acullen8@bloomberg.net
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