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4 killed, 6 injured in Italy shooting spree: Police

Friday, 15 May 2015 10:46 PM [ Last Update: Friday, 15 May 2015 11:48 PM ]

Italian police arrest a gunman -- seen in a blue polo shirt -- who is said to have killed four people on May 15, 2015. (EPA photo)

A shooting incident in Italy’s southern city of Naples has claimed the lives of at least four people and injured six others, police say.

The accident occurred on Friday when a 48-year-old male nurse, with no criminal record, killed three members of his family at home before shooting from the balcony of his house in the Secondigliano neighborhood.

According to early police reports, the man killed his wife, brother, and sister-in-law as well as a local police officer with a shotgun, for which he had a sports permit.

"The toll is four dead, including a lieutenant in the municipal police who was a neighbor of the shooter and was the first to intervene," a police spokesman said.

*Italian police officers stand in a street after a lone killer shot several people in Secondigliano neighborhood in Naples on May 15, 2015. (AFP photo)*

Among those wounded, there were four police officers, who were called to the scene, besides a passerby and a traffic police agent.

The gunman turned himself in after police forced their way into his house.

Media reports said the shooting happened following an argument between the gunman and his wife, although the motive behind the shooting is still unknown, and police are investigating the incident.

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