One person was shot dead and several others seriously injured in a shooting at a nightclub in Germany, before the gunman was fatally shot by police.
The gunman opened fire at the club in the southern German city of Konstanz.
One police officer was injured in an exchange of fire with the attacker.
The 34-year-old gunman "was critically injured in a shootout with police officers as he left the disco, and later succumbed to his wounds in hospital," police said in a statement.
The incident happened at around 2.30am.
A German police spokesman has ruled out terrorism as a motive for the shooting, and has said that the attacker was an Iraqi citizen but not an asylum seeker.
Police said in a statement that special commando forces have been deployed in the city as it was not clear if the suspect had acted alone or had accomplices.
The shooting comes just two days after Germany was shaken by a knife attack in the northern port city of Hamburg which left one person dead and others injured.
