Several people were killed and wounded in a shooting incident inside a building used by Jehovah’s Witnesses in the northern German city of Hamburg on Thursday evening, police said.
Several people were killed and wounded in a shooting incident inside a building used by Jehovah’s Witnesses in the northern German city of Hamburg on Thursday evening, police said.
“We only know that several people died here; several people are wounded, they were taken to hospitals,” police spokesperson Holger Vehren said of the shooting in the Gross Borstel district of Germany’s second-biggest city.
He said he had no information on the severity of the injuries suffered by the wounded. Police did not confirm German media reports, which named no sources, of six or seven dead.
In a Twitter update in the early hours of Friday, Hamburg police said they believed there was only one gunman and they were gradually rolling back security forces from the area.
“The investigation into the motive behind the crime continues,” police said.
Hamburg security officials said there would be a press conference on Friday afternoon to discuss details.
