London, June 2 (DPA) A gunman killed at least four people in a shooting rampage in a rural region of north west England Wednesday – with police saying they now believe they have found the body of the attacker.
Police said the number of victims from the shooting series could be even higher, adding that a number of people were injured.
Police said they found the body of the suspected gunman, Derrick Bird, a 52-year-old taxi driver, in a wood in the area.
Police had earlier appealed to residents in the port of Whitehaven, where the shooting started, to stay indoors.
The BBC reported a farmer was shot dead at point-blank rage in a field.
The incident unfolded at around 0830 GMT in west Cumbria, in and around the towns of Whitehaven, Seascale and Egremont.
The nearby nuclear reprocessing plant at Sellafield, where 16,000 people work, was temporarily closed down.
No motive for the attacks has yet emerged in what reporters called a ‘mystifying series of crimes’.
