German police launch manhunt after 2 people shot dead

Berlin: A large police operation was under way in Germany on Sunday to find one or more shooters who killed two men the day before in the centre of th...

Berlin: A large police operation was under way in Germany on Sunday to find one or more shooters who killed two men the day before in the centre of the country, police said.

The bodies of the two victims, both with gunshot wounds, were found in front of a residential address in Bad Nauheim, a town north of Frankfurt, on Saturday afternoon, Giessen city police said.

The victims were a man, 59, and his 28 year-old son-in-law, both of Turkish nationality, who "had no previous dealings with the police", police and prosecutors said Sunday.

"A big force deployment" of police from uniformed, plain clothes and special forces branches have fanned out, backed by a helicopter, to find the perpetrator or perpetrators, it said.

The search continued Sunday in parallel with investigations.