Aachen (dpa / lnw) – In a dispute in Aachen, two people were seriously injured by gunshots. A 35-year-old man is in the hospital with life-threatening injuries and a 27-year-old woman with serious injuries, a spokeswoman for the Aachen public prosecutor said on Thursday. According to previous investigations, it was a relationship crime.

The spokeswoman initially did not want to say who shot the two. However, no other person was involved in the crime. The exact background to what happened on a street in the Rothe Erde district late Wednesday evening is still unclear.