EDIT CONTAINS 4:3 STILL PHOTOS<br/> <br />Three people were killed and two wounded late on Wednesday (January 2) when a gunman opened fire in the Swiss village of Daillon, Swiss police said on Thursday (January 3).<br/> <br />The suspect threatened police when they tried to arrest him, and officers shot and wounded him before taking him into custody, police of the Swiss canton of Valais said in a statement. No police officers were wounded.<br/> <br />Swiss website 20minutes.ch reported that the gunman was a resident of the village aged about 30 who was armed with an assault rifle and had been drinking heavily.<br/> <br />It quoted a villager as saying one of the dead was a woman in her 80s.<br/> <br />Special police units and local police forces were alerted by a caller who said several people were lying wounded on the ground at about 8:50 p.m. (1950 GMT), the police statement said.<br/> <br />It said the incident was being investigated and the site had been closed off.<br/> <br />More information would be released later on Thursday at a news conference in the village, which is close to the town of Sion, the capital of the canton - or region - of Valais.<br/> <br />Mass shootings are rare in Switzerland, although gun possession is widespread - some estimates run to at least one for every three of its 8 million inhabitants. Many are stored in people's attics, a legacy of Switzerland's policy of arming its men to defend its neutrality.
