BERLIN: At the least six individuals had been killed in a mass capturing at a church in Hamburg, Germany, on Thursday, in keeping with a number of experiences, with dozens extra injured in one of many nation’s deadliest mass shootings in recent times. “The experiences from Alsterdorf / Gross Borstel are stunning. My deepest condolences to the households of the victims,” Hamburg Mayor Peter Tschentscher tweeted.
In accordance with eyewitnesses, photographs had been fired inside a constructing utilized by Jehovah’s Witnesses within the northern German metropolis of Hamburg on Thursday night during which a number of individuals had been killed or wounded, police mentioned earlier. The capturing passed off within the Gross Borstel district, a couple of kilometers north of the downtown space of Germany’s second-biggest metropolis.
“We solely know that a number of individuals died right here; a number of persons are wounded, they had been taken to hospitals,” police spokesman Holger Vehren mentioned. He mentioned he had no data on the severity of the accidents suffered by the wounded.
The scene of the capturing was the Jehovah’s Witnesses Kingdom Corridor, a contemporary and boxy three-story constructing subsequent door to an auto restore store.
Vehren mentioned police had been alerted to the capturing about 9.15 pm native time and had been on the scene shortly. He mentioned that after officers arrived and located individuals with obvious gunshot wounds on the bottom ground, they heard a shot from an higher ground and located a fatally wounded individual upstairs who could have been a shooter. He mentioned police didn’t have to make use of their firearms.
Vehren mentioned there was no indication {that a} shooter was on the run and that it appeared probably that the perpetrator was both within the constructing or among the many useless.
Two witnesses interviewed on n-tv tv, whose names weren’t given, mentioned they heard 12 photographs. Police had no data on the occasion that was underway within the constructing when the capturing passed off.
In addition they had no speedy data on a attainable motive. Vehren mentioned that “the background remains to be utterly unclear.” Hamburg Mayor Peter Tschentscher tweeted that the information was ‘stunning’ and provided his sympathy to the victims’ family members.
Jehovah’s Witnesses are a part of a world church, based in america within the nineteenth century and headquartered in Warwick, New York. It claims a worldwide membership of about 8.7 million, with about 170,000 in Germany.
Members are identified for his or her evangelistic efforts which embrace knocking on doorways and distributing literature in public squares. The denomination’s distinctive practices embrace a refusal to bear arms, obtain blood transfusions, salute a nationwide flag or take part in secular authorities.
