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WISS POLICE HAVE said that they had found the body of a man suspected of opening fire and injuring three men at a Muslim prayer hall in Zurich.
The attack on Monday evening is not believed to be linked to the so-called Islamic State movement, a statement added.
“We assume that the dead person we found is the perpetrator of the shooting at the Islamic centre in Zurich,” Zurich police said in a tweet.
It added that there is “no indication that the perpetrator has a link to IS”.
The body was found after a search for the shooter near the scene.
The announcement came after a man, around 30 years old, burst into the Islamic Centre in central Zurich around 5:30 pm (4:30pm Irish time) last night and began shooting, according to police.
He “fired several shots at the worshippers,” before fleeing, police said.
Most of those at the Islamic Centre were from North Africa, Somalia and Eritrea, according to the ATS news agency.
“Three men, aged 30, 35 and 56, were injured, some seriously. The suspect then escaped from the mosque in the direction of Central Station,” an earlier police statement said.
A press conference is expected in Zurich later today.
A police spokesman told the RTS public broadcaster that the youngest and oldest victims were both seriously injured, while the 35-year-old was slightly hurt in the shooting.
Torchlight search
Police had immediately launched a manhunt for the shooter, using torches and sniffer dogs, and urged witnesses to come forward.
They did not immediately provide any details about the suspected motive for the shooting.
While the search was getting started, a body was found a few hundred metres from the scene on a river bank under a bridge.
An AFP photographer said the body had been draped with a white sheet.
Around a dozen people were inside the prayer hall at the time of shooting, ATS reported, citing people there, adding that a prayer service had been scheduled for 4:45 pm.
A number of Swiss mosques, including one near Zurich and the main one in Geneva, have in recent months been accused in media of allowing or encouraging the radicalisation of their worshippers, especially younger members of their congregations.
Switzerland, a country of some eight million people, has some 450,000 Muslims, according to Swiss media.
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I’m waiting for Irish people to be tagged as ghosts
Funniest headline I’ve read in ages!
Google need to stop monkeying around.
The algorrillm needs some fine tuning.
Is it caus they black?
It’s a bit like when Nikon brought out their blink detection software years ago. It asks “did someone blink?” I noticed it myself on my L100 and it worked fine. The problem arose when pictures of Asians were mistaken as someone blinking, even though they were not.
Since Nikon is an Asian company, one wonders what sort of quality control they had on that one.
What kind of ape wrote that program.
That’s fierce funny altogether.
Light relief from the Greece crisis.
Can’t foresee a Terminator situation any time soon
I’ll be black.
For anyone thinking this is a person in google tagging black people as gorillas: http://rocknrollnerd.github.io/ml/2015/05/27/leopard-sofa.html
Check your algorithmic privilege.
Mortifying.
ilikegrasss
Seems like they have a racist/s in Google
I don’t think computers can be racist. They’re aren’t that advanced in AI yet.
Nor are they so advanced in recruitment…
This is an AI issue, not a human issue.
Perhaps if it wasn’t a human issue it wouldn’t have been an AI issue.
http://www.forbes.com/sites/jaymcgregor/2014/05/29/2-of-google-employees-are-black-and-just-30-are-women/
So it’s not the fault of the person who programed the AI(long way off real AI) who is at fault?
Black people don’t look anything like Gorillas . If it can tell the difference between a Leopard and a Jaguar then it should be able to tel the difference between a person and an Ape.
Don’t see how labeling a black person as a Gorilla is racist..sure aren’t we all as equally related to the gorilla?
After that handsome gorilla the other day I;d say many of us would take kindly to being more gorilla-like :)
Well said Fozz. Sure Gareth Bale is the absolute spit of a gorilla. He gets fierce abuse for it. And I have yet to hear anyone call it a racist insult.
@Paul Roche
Maybe white and Asian males are just better at this kind of work.
Do you think a negroe programmer would have missed this?
You’re supposed to say “black”.
Perhaps, but I intended to write “negro”, the “e” hung around after an unsuccessful edit of an original plural… Maybe it should look for job on Google…
Looks nifty, can I download from the ApeStore?
There is a simple solution to that issue. It would involve swapping two words. Although I think gorillas would not like to be named humans. Just imagine what animal rights activists would say.
Think how clever you have to be to screw up on this level.
How do you test every possible scenario for photograph classification? I’ve been fooled by more than one elbow, myself.
Facial recognition insists in asian
Well then, I think it’s time for me to get a software update too. I honestly had to do a double take.
All aboard the lets get offended at anything band wagon.
‘Get machetes to think more like the way people do’ (quote) . Keep digging !
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