Guwahati: A shooting spree at a Jehovah’s Witness centre in Hamburg of Germany may have resulted in the deaths of as many as eight persons including the alleged shooter.
A police spokesman at the scene informed that the police officers heard a gunshot upstairs on entering the building. However, the motive of the attacker still remains unclear.
The officers searched the building’s higher floors after hearing the shot and found another person there.
Shots reportedly rang out at a building in the city’s northern area of Gross Borstel about 2015 GMT, prompting the first emergency call.
Police tweeted that “several people were seriously injured, some even fatally” in the incident.
While requesting people not to speculate, the police said, “At the moment there is no reliable information on the motive of the crime.”
A catastrophe warning app had sounded an alarm for “severe danger” in the area, but just after 3 am local time, Germany’s Federal Office for Civil Protection lifted it.
Munich police tweeted early Friday: “The police measures in the surrounding area are gradually being discontinued. Investigations into the background of the crime are continuing.”
The cops claimed that an incident had occurred in the routine on Thursday morning.
Jehovah’s Witnesses reportedly convened for a weekly Bible study group.
In Germany, there are roughly 175,000 Jehovah’s Witnesses, 3,800 of them reside in Hamburg.
According to authorities, the first cops on the site discovered a number of dead bodies and badly injured people.
According to the Hamburger Abendblatt, the fire department was taking care of 17 attendees who were unharmed.
The folice said that the officers heard a shot in the “upper part of the building” before finding a body in the area where it rang out.
“We have no indications of a perpetrator on the run,” said the police spokesman. Instead, officers have “indications that a perpetrator may have been in the building and may be even among the dead,” the police said.