“Several members of a Jehovah community fell victim to a brutal act of violence last night. German Chancellor Olaf Scholz denouncing shooting in a statement said:

The investigation into the circumstances of the crime continues.” “All police measures in the vicinity are being successively discontinued. “At present, we believe there is one perpetrator,” Hamburg police said in their latest update on their Twitter account, hours after armed officers scoured the scene for evidence and suspects. The Jehovah’s Witnesses in Germany said in a statement: “The religious community is deeply saddened by the horrific attack on its members at the Kingdom Hall in Hamburg after a religious service.” “Other people were injured in the incident, some seriously.” ”Eight people are dead – including the alleged perpetrator,” Hamburg’s police said in a statement. The streets around the place of worship have been cut off, and police earlier warned of “extreme danger” in the area, the spokesperson added. A bomb disposal team was deployed at one point. Pictures scene showed numerous armed police officers inside and around the Kingdom Hall while a helicopter flew overhead. When the police got into the hall and injured people on the bottom floor where an event was taking place, Hamburg police spokesman Holger Vehren told NTV.Īpparently, officers also heard a shot on the top floor of the building when they first entered it and found a dead person upstairs. ET) with police initially not aware of how many shooters might have been involved, but newer updates showed it was just one attacker, who was later confirmed dead at the scene of the incident. The incident took place in the quiet city of Hamburg at around 9 p.m. A lone shooter has killed seven people at a Jehovah’s Witnesses’ Kingdom Hall in the city of Hamburg in Germany on Friday, March 10, according to German police force.

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