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2 die in court shooting

A 60-year-old cook shot his sister-in-law, seriously wounded two other people and then killed himself in a courthouse shooting spree in the southern German town of Landshut yesterday, police said.

The man was embroiled in a legal battle with his in-laws over an inheritance row and suddenly opened fire with a revolver during a break in proceedings in the hallway of the court, state prosecutor Christoph Stroetz said.