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HAMBURG, 10 March (Reuters) – German police at a Jehovah’s Witness church in Hamburg on Friday alone was looking for the motive of the gunman, who is believed to have acted, to kill several people.
Police declined to say how many people were killed in Thursday night’s attack, but said the gunman was believed to be among the dead.
The Bild newspaper reported that 7 people were killed and 8 injured as a result of shooting at the Kingdom Hall of Jehovah’s Witnesses in the northern city where Germany’s largest port is located.
Details of the suspected killer have not been released.
“Worse than Hamburg newsChancellor Olaf Scholz tweeted on Friday morning, calling the attack a “savage act of violence.”
He said his thoughts were with the victims, their families and security forces, who they said were killed around 9pm (GMT 2000) “went through a difficult deployment” after the shooting.
Minister of Internal Affairs Nancy Faeser said on Twitter that authorities are working urgently to investigate the crime.
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“We assume there is a criminal,” he said the police Thursday evening. “Research into the motives of the crime is ongoing.”
Police people’s “crime or relevant events” created a web portal for uploading photos and videos.
DPA news According to the agency, shortly after the violence began, residents of the Alsterdorf district received a warning on their mobile phones about a “life-threatening situation” and the area was sealed off.
Television footage showed dozens of police cars as well as fire engines blocking the streets and some people wrapped in blankets being taken to buses by emergency workers.
“We heard gunshots,” one of the unidentified witnesses told reporters.
“There were 12 continuous shots. “Then we saw how people were taken away in black bags.”
The police arrived at the scene and discovered that several people were seriously injured and that there were dead people.
“Then they heard a gunshot from above, went upstairs and found another person,” said a police spokesman.
Germany has been rocked by a series of shootings in the past few years. 2020In February, a gunman suspected of having far-right ties shot dead nine people, including migrants from Turkey, in the western city of Hanau before killing himself and his mother.
In October 2019, a gunman opened fire outside a synagogue in the eastern city of Halle on the Jewish holy day of Yom Kippur, killing two people.
Reporting by Madeline Chambers, Sabine Wollrab, Emma-Victoria Farr, Reuters Television; Edited by William Mallard and Robert Birsel
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2023-03-10 11:05:48
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