Frankfurt: German police arrested a man Wednesday after the two American airmen were killed and two wounded in the incident on a bus of the U.S. Army at Frankfurt airport, authorities said.
Security was tightened around the airport and the investigation of "terrible, senseless crime" is in full swing, "said Boris Rhein, the interior minister for state Hesse.
"Whether the incident was linked to terrorism, I can not say at this stage," he told reporters.
Suspected gunman was apparently Kosovo's national, "he said. Police said he was 21.
Press secretary of Frankfurt airport operator Fraport said the shooting took place on a bus in front of the U.S. Army Terminal 2. President Obama said he was outraged by the attack.
Kosovo authorities believed they knew the identity of suspected militants, but could not confirm it yet, Kosovo's Interior Minister Bajram Rexhepi told Reuters in Pristina.
A policeman identified the man as Arif Uca from the city of Mitrovica, but no official confirmation has been given yet.
"The Government of the Republic of Kosovo is extremely touched by and strongly condemns the killing of two American citizens and wounding two others, a citizen of Kosovo, which happened today in Germany," the government said in a statement.
The United States had troops in Kosovo since 1999, when NATO bombing campaign forced out Serbian troops. American troops are there now to help supervise the fragile peace that has held since Kosovo declared independence from Serbia in 2008.
Major Beverly Mock, a spokesman for the U.S. Air Force air base "Rammstein in Germany, said the identities of dead pilots have not yet been confirmed.
"The German authorities shooter in custody," she said.
Chancellor Angela Merkel, speaking in Berlin, said at a news conference: ". We do not know the details, but I would like to express how I'm upset we must do everything possible to find out what happened." (Reuters)
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