Several people were killed and others injured in a shooting in Hamburg, Germany.
“Shots” were fired at a church in the Gross Borstel district, and “several” people were killed and others seriously injured, police in the northern port metropolis announced on Thursday evening March 9. of Germany. Several German media reported at least six dead.
The facts took place “in a church of Jehovah’s Witnesses” in the north of the city, around 9 p.m., writes the popular daily Bild.
According to the daily Hamburger Morgenpost, “at least six people were found dead, plus seven seriously injured and seventeen slightly injured. For his part, Bild evokes the presence of a seventh victim on the floor, and evokes a “bloodbath”.
There are “indications that a perpetrator may be in the building, possibly even among the dead,” a police spokesman told NTV television.
According to several media, the population of the port city was warned of “extreme danger” via the disaster alert application, with the police calling to avoid the area concerned. “Take shelter in a building immediately,” adds the message asking to “telephone only in case of extreme emergency, so as not to overload the lines”.
