Several dead in Jehovah's Witness Hall shooting in Germany

The scene of the shooting was the Jehovah's Witnesses' Kingdom Hall, a modern and boxy three-story building next door to an auto repair shop.

Published on: Mar 10, 2023 9:33 AM IST

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A gunman killed several people on Thursday in a Jehovah's Witness church in the German city of Hamburg, police said, as they focussed their investigation on the motive for the attack.  (REUTERS)

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Special police inside the building after at least six people are dead and several more injured in a shooting in the northern German city of Hamburg, Germany. (REUTERS)

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“We only know that several people died here; several people are wounded, they were taken to hospitals,” police spokesman Holger Vehren said of the shooting in the Gross Borstel district of Germany's second-biggest city.  (AFP)

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"Police activities in the surrounding area are being successively discontinued. The investigation into the motive behind the crime continuing,” police said.  (AFP)

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"According to the current state of affairs, we assume that there is one perpetrator," police said in a message on Twitter.  (AP)

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Television footage showed dozens of police cars as well as fire engines blocking off streets and some people, wrapped in blankets, being led by emergency service workers into a bus.  (AP)

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Police refused to disclose the number of people that had been killed but said the gunman was believed to be among the dead. (REUTERS)