At Least 7 People Killed Dozens Injured in Hamburg Attack
At least seven people have been killed and dozens were injured after an attack took place at a Jehovah’s Witness center in the northern German city of Hamburg, local media have reported.
On Thursday evening, police said the gunman was believed to be among the dead, and the motives of the attack are still unclear.
Seven people had died and 25 others were injured, some were in critical condition and have been transferred to hospitals for treatment.
Police said they had found a “lifeless person who is believed to be a p perpetrator”. However, investigations are underway and will find out whether someone else was involved in the shooting.
“According to initial findings, shots were fired in a church on Deelbögestrasse in the GrossBorstel district,” police said.
Some 175,000 people in Germany are Jehovah’s Witnesses, including 3,800 in Hamburg. The Christian movement set up in the US in the late 19th century preaches non-violence and is known for door-to-door evangelism.
In recent years, Germany has witnessed attacks by Islamist terrorists and the far-right-extremist movements, which have claimed the lives of scores of innocent civilians.
In February 2020 a far-right extremist shot dead ten people and wounded five others in the central German city of Hanau. And in 2019, two people were killed after a neo-Nazi tried to storm a synagogue in Halle on the Jewish holiday of Yom Kippur.
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