Gunman kills three, including two police officers, locks himself in farm building

Описание: (17 Sep 2013) Police blocked access to a farm building in a small Austrian village on Tuesday morning, following the shooting of two police officers and the driver of an emergency rescue vehicle.
According to media reports, the man responsible barricaded himself inside the farm building after the shooting.
Interior Minister spokesman Karl-Heinz Grundboeck said a third police officer was apparently being held by the shooter.
Cars were being turned away from the building near the Austrian village of Kollapriel, about 70 kilometres (40 miles) west of Vienna.
Grundboeck confirmed that three people were shot but refused to say whether their injuries were fatal, explaining that officials did not want to give the gunman information through news reports he was likely monitoring.
He also said that the shootings occurred in the vicinity of the town of Annaberg in Lower Austria province.
With an Interior Ministry news blackout in force, no further official information was immediately available.
The website of state broadcaster ORF said the man was a 55-year-old poacher who fled when approached by police, then shot a member of Austria's Cobra SWAT team after his car landed in a ditch.
ORF said he subsequently shot the driver and then a second police officer at a roadblock before barricading himself inside the farmhouse.

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