Notifications can be managed in browser preferences. State prosecutors said that the killings appeared to be random I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our Privacy notice Identified only as Bernd G. by Bavarian state prosecutors, the 47-year-old faces two charges of murder and one of attempted murder. The first victim was shot at about 10am, and was an 82-year-old woman known in the community around Ansbach where she lived. The second was targeted shortly after five kilometres down the road and was a 72-year-old cyclist. Neither was thought to have a connection to the shooter, a Bavaria state prosecutor said in a press conference on Friday afternoon. The first shooting was in Leutershausen and the second in nearby Rammersdorf – both quiet villages west of Nuremberg. A manhunt ensued after the shooter fled the scene, with helicopters deployed. Just before midday he was overpowered by mechanics at a petrol station in Bad Windsheim, 35kms away. “Thanks to the courageous intervention of these employees, the perpetrator was able to be stopped,” Joachim Hermann, Bavaria's interior minister, told a news conference. He called the attack “an ugly, incomprehensible crime” and offered his condolences to those affected by Friday’s tragedy. The gunman also shot at a man driving a tractor who sustained small cuts from broken shards of glass but was otherwise unhurt. He threatened another man with his gun – which he was licensed to own but not use. Police said on Friday that the man lived locally, had no convictions and was not known to them. He is undergoing psychological assessment and prosecutors said he showed signs of mental health problems after his arrest. Join thought-provoking conversations, follow other Independent readers and see their replies Please help us improve PreventionWeb by taking this brief survey Your input will allow us to better serve the needs of the DRR community See the survey Lola Kotova from Climate Service Center Germany (GERICS) unpacks climate information for strengthening the resilience of cultural heritage in times of anthropogenic climate change presenting in this vein a fascinating case study for Germany on European cultural heritage have progressed at an unprecedented speed and scale in recent years According to the final report of the European Union Open Method of Coordination (OMC) expert group museum collections and historical buildings are affected severe precipitation events and heavy windstorms (1) The following damages to cultural heritage are often observed in Central Europe (2): reliable climate information is required to develop appropriate preservation strategies and measures to protect and adapt cultural heritage to climate change It is essential to know how the climate will change in the future at the sites where the cultural heritage is located and to what frequency and extent the future climate will influence historic sites the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research launched the KERES project in 2020 The project’s primary focus is protecting cultural heritage from extreme climate events and increasing the resilience of selected cultural heritage sites in Germany including historical buildings and gardens These are the Charlottenhof Palace and Park in Sanssouci Potsdam; the Frauenberg Chapel in Sufferloh Bavaria; Cologne Cathedral; Franconian Open Air Museum in Bad Windsheim and the City of Warehouses (The Speicherstadt) in Hamburg (see Figure 1) The main idea behind the three-year research project is to use an ensemble of climate simulations from which the input for building simulation tools is generated These results serve as the basis for assessing the potential damage risk The KERES database consists of an ensemble of high-resolution climate simulations from 1970 to 2100 with hourly temporal resolution (3) Climate projections are based on the RCP 8.5 emission scenario This Representative Concentration Pathway (RCP) illustrates the bandwidth of possible future greenhouse gas emission trajectories; it is a highly energy-intensive scenario due to high population growth and a lower rate of technological development The database’s climate variables include near-surface air temperature several observational datasets for selected case studies are stored in the KERES database The ensemble of climate simulations in KERES spans various future climate development possibilities in projections the robustness of the projected changes can be evaluated “Robust” is defined as the agreement of simulations toward the projected changes and with the portion of the simulations that project statistically significant changes The Climate Facts Sheets (CFS) for the selected cultural heritage sites have been developed as an output of the project The Climate Fact Sheets give a snapshot of the key findings on the magnitude and the range of projected climate change It highlights climate information and data needs for further actions on adaptation mitigation and resilience planning in the cultural heritage sector KERES CFS primarily assesses climatic variables relevant to specific cultural heritage sites Figure 2 shows the changes in median in heat extremes that might affect the Charlottenhof Palace and park in the future The climate change signal is derived for 2036-2065 and 2068-2098 and compared to 1971-2000 It is projected to experience further increases in hot days with maximum temperature >30°C and tropical nights with daily minimum temperature >20°C The robust signals can be derived for both time slices for RCP8.5 Please note: Content is displayed as last posted by a PreventionWeb community member or editor. 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If you have 2 minutes, we would benefit from additional feedback (link opens in a new window) PreventionWeb is the global knowledge sharing platform for disaster risk reduction (DRR) and resilience This website is using a security service to protect itself from online attacks The action you just performed triggered the security solution There are several actions that could trigger this block including submitting a certain word or phrase You can email the site owner to let them know you were blocked Please include what you were doing when this page came up and the Cloudflare Ray ID found at the bottom of this page she lived and worked in Dallas as a signed actor with Campbell Agency She's practiced a variety of creative mediums including pottery She currently works as the Director of Operations and Content Strategist for Chad's Media LLC As well as a Photographer and Contributing Writer for Front Porch News A 47-year-old gunman has shot and killed two people and injured another in a rampage in Germany before being overpowered by two garage mechanics Officials said the victims appeared to have been chosen randomly by the suspect who spoke "incoherently" after his arrest in the southern state of Bavaria "At the moment there are no indications of any immediate relationships between the culprit and the victims," said Bavaria's interior minister Joachim Herrmann Police were alerted at 10am that a middle-aged man driving a silver Mercedes had opened fire on a woman in the town of Tiefenthal the gunman fatally shot a 72-year-old man riding a bicycle in the nearby town of Rammersdorf A driver who was threatened by the suspect gave details of the man's car to police The suspect then fired at a farmer driving a tractor and drove to a filling station in Bad Windsheim police were informed that staff at an Esso gas station in Bad Windsheim had overpowered the man after he threatened them with a weapon," said Mr Herrmann "It's thanks to the brave intervention of the gas station staff that the suspect was stopped." a local man identified only as Bernd G in line with German privacy rules showed signs of psychological problems and was being assessed by a psychiatrist The man had permits to own two firearms but not to carry or use them please register for free or log in to your account.