Seven have been killed in the shooting at a Jehovah's Witness Hall in Hamburg, police said, while others were also seriously wounded in the attack Thursday night.
A shooting at a Jehovah’s Witness hall in Hamburg on Thursday night left seven people dead, with others seriously wounded, Hamburg police said.
After arriving at the crime scene, police heard a gunshot from within the Jehovah’s Witness building and found a body when they followed the sound, Hamburg police spokesman Holger Vehren said in an on-camera interview from the scene. The police found several people dead and others injured by bullets when they arrived at the building around 9:15 p.m. local time, he added.
Tschentscher, the Hamburg mayor, said the reports coming out of Groß Borstel “are shocking,” and offered his “deepest condolences to the families of the victims.”
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