Several people killed, wounded in shooting at German Jehovah’s Witnesses building – National | 24CA News
Shots have been fired inside a constructing utilized by Jehovah’s Witnesses within the northern German metropolis of Hamburg on Thursday night, and several other individuals have been killed or wounded, police stated.
The taking pictures befell within the Gross Borstel district, a couple of kilometers (miles) north of the downtown space of Germany’s second-biggest metropolis.
“We only know that several people died here; several people are wounded, they were taken to hospitals,” police spokesman Holger Vehren stated.
He stated he had no info on the severity of the accidents suffered by the wounded.
Police didn’t verify German media stories, which named no sources, of six or seven lifeless.
The scene of the taking pictures was the Jehovah’s Witnesses’ Kingdom Hall, a contemporary and boxy three-story constructing subsequent door to an auto restore store.
Vehren stated police have been alerted to the taking pictures about 9:15 p.m. and have been on the scene shortly.
He stated 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 might have been a shooter. He stated police didn’t have to make use of their firearms.
Vehren stated 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 lifeless.
Two witnesses interviewed on n-tv tv, whose names weren’t given, stated they heard 12 pictures.
Police had no info on the occasion that was below means within the constructing when the taking pictures befell.
They additionally had no rapid info on a potential motive. Vehren stated that “the background is still completely unclear.”
Hamburg Mayor Peter Tschentscher tweeted that the news was “shocking” and provided his sympathy to the victims’ kin.
Jehovah’s Witnesses are a part of a global church, based within the United States 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 that embody knocking on doorways and distributing literature in public squares. The denomination’s distinctive practices embody a refusal to bear arms, obtain blood transfusions, salute a nationwide flag or take part in secular authorities.
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