Police commandos
stormed an apartment in southern Germany on Wednesday after a hostage
standoff and found five bodies, including that of the gunman, a
spokesman said.
The
team was sent in to the apartment after police smelled smoke from the
top-floor apartment in Karlsruhe at around lunchtime following a
standoff that began at 9 a.m., police spokesman Juergen Scheufer said.
Inside
they found the bodies of the suspect, as well as those of the court
bailiff who had sought to evict the man, the locksmith who had
accompanied him, the woman who was supposed to take over the apartment
and another person, he said.
The
man opened fire when the bailiff and others went to his apartment to
eject him for failing to pay his rent, and then multiple shots were
filed, killing one person.
Police then blocked off the entire area in the Nordstadt section of the city and called in the police commando teams.
It was not clear whether they had ever managed to make any contact with the gunman before the hostages were killed. 
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