Deaths and injuries in shots fired at techno event in Switzerland

Shots were fired at a techno event in Switzerland early Sunday morning. According to the Aargau cantonal police, there is one fatality and five people injured, some seriously. Accordingly, the search for the unknown perpetrator or perpetrators is underway. The police called on the population to stay away from the area and spoke of a major operation. As a precautionary measure, they are also showing increased presence beyond Aarau, it was said on Platform X.

The fatality was a 22-year-old woman who succumbed to her injuries on site. There are also four men and one woman between the ages of 24 and 27 in the hospital.

Shots were fired around 3 a.m

According to police, the shots were fired at the "Aarau Rave" - a techno event with around 3,500 participants at the horse racing track in Schachen, an Aarau district. The Swiss newspaper Blick quoted a police spokeswoman who spoke of "several shots being fired at a large group of people."

Eyewitnesses reported that they thought the shots around 2:30 a.m. were fireworks. Many visitors then fled to a nearby sports hall. A witness spoke of “gunfire.”

DJ: “Absolutely heartbreaking”

The rave's DJ expressed his emotions on Instagram. What happened at the event was absolutely “heartbreaking,” wrote DJ Tekibo. "Techno and raves should be a place of freedom and safety."

He's still trying to process the whole thing. He lost an important person and just couldn't find the right words. He announced that he would retire for a certain period of time.