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Germany says shooting of U.S. airmen a solo act
Baku, March 7 (AZERTAC). A lone gunman enraged over the war in Afghanistan probably acted alone when he shot dead two U.S. airmen and wounded two others at Frankfurt airport this week, a German prosecutor said on Friday.
Accrodinng to Reuters, German media had reported the man could be part of a terrorist cell, raising fears of further attacks on U.S. targets in Germany.
Arid Uka, a Kosovan national, confessed to firing on the U.S. airmen at point-blank range with a 9mm pistol, federal prosecutor Rainer Griesbaum told a televised news conference in Karlsruhe, western Germany.
Uka, 21, has been charged with murder and attempted murder.
Griesbaum described how the gunman walked up to the airmen who were boarding a U.S. Army bus on Wednesday and asked one of them for a cigarette.
After enquiring if the soldiers were headed to fight in Afghanistan and hearing it confirmed, Uka shot the 25-year-old man in the back of the head, killing him.
He then boarded the bus, shouted Allahu Akbar (God is Greatest) and shot a 21-year old airman sitting in the driver`s seat dead. He wounded two others and pulled the trigger on a fifth target when his gun jammed.
That serviceman managed to catch Uka along with police after he fled.
Uka, who was working on a short-term contract at the Frankfurt international postal centre at the airport, often came across travelling U.S. servicemen, but only planned the attack after watching an online video.