A shooting at a Jehovah's Witnesses hall in the German city of Hamburg left eight people dead, apparently including the perpetrator, police said Friday. An unspecified number of other people were wounded, some of them seriously.
There was no word on a possible motive for Thursday night's attack, which stunned Germany's second-biggest city. Chancellor Olaf Scholz, a former Hamburg mayor, described it as “a brutal act of violence.”
Officers apparently reached the hall while the attack was ongoing - and heard one more shot after they arrived, according to witnesses and authorities. They did not use their own firearms, a police spokesman said. In the most recent shooting involving a site of worship, a far-right extremist attempted to force his way into a synagogue in Halle on Yom Kippur, Judaism's holiest day, in October 2019. After failing to gain entry, he shot two people to death nearby.
David Semonian, a U.S.-based spokesman for Jehovah's Witnesses, said in an emailed statement early Friday that members “worldwide grieve for the victims of this traumatic event.” Student Laura Bauch, who lives nearby, said there were around four periods of shooting, German news agency dpa reported. “There were always several shots in these periods,” she said.
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