Five people have been injured, two of them seriously, when a man carrying a chainsaw stormed an office building in the Swiss town of Schaffhausen on Monday morning.

The old town of Switzerland’s northernmost city has been sealed off as police continue to search for the perpetrator. Officials told the Swiss news portal 20 Minuten that the incident was not being treated as a terrorist attack. According to the Swiss newspaper Blick, the male suspect was described as approximately 1.9m tall male, bald and of “unkempt appearance”, driving a white Volkswagen Caddy vehicle with a number plate from the canton of Graubünden. Earlier in the day the owner of a shop in the area told Blick that a man with a chainsaw was walking the streets, and that pedestrians and residents had been asked to leave shops and apartments.(theguardian)…[+]