Two dead, four wounded in M16 shooting at German nightclub

Konstanz (Germany) (AFP) - A Kurdish Iraqi man armed with an M16 automatic rifle opened fire in a packed nightclub in southern Germany early Sunday after a dispute there, killing a bouncer and wounding four people before being shot by police.

The 34-year-old attacker "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.

"Nothing suggest that there could have been an Islamist or terror background" to the attack at the club, said prosecutor Johannes-Georg Roth.

"Rather, everything points to a personal dispute that had escalated in an unspeakable manner," he added.