Mother shot dead after killing spree

Police said the 41-year-old lawyer had suffered a miscarriage at the hospital in the town of Loerrach in 2004, but were not sure if that was the motive for the rampage on Sunday.

The woman, who has not been named, killed her husband and son in her flat and then ran across the street to the hospital. There she killed a male nurse before being shot dead during a gunfight with police. The son usually lived with his father but was visiting for the weekend.

After the killings at the apartment, the woman started a fire in the building before leaving.

The nurse died from stab wounds and gunshot injuries to the head.

The woman shot 10 times at the door of a room in which there were a patient and six visitors before police shot her. She had 300 rounds of ammunition.