Berlin (EFE).- At least six people were killed this Thursday in a shooting that occurred in a church in Hamburg (Germany), according to authorities in that northern German city.
The event occurred at a Jehovah’s Witness premises in that city and according to police sources there are still no details of the perpetrator or perpetrators of the shooting, in which several people were also injured.
The city police communicated via Twitter that “there is still no certain information about the reason” for the shooting and asked the population not to spread “assumptions or rumors” about what happened.
Act of Jehovah’s Witnesses
The event occurred in the Deelböge neighborhood around 9:00 p.m. local time (8:00 p.m. GMT) when the perpetrator(s) fired at those attending an act of Jehovah’s Witnesses, according to local media reports.
The mayor of Hamburg, Peter Tschentscher, described what happened in the city as “horrifying” and declared that “the security forces are working hard to persecute the perpetrators and clarify what happened.”
Several people with gunshot wounds were found at the scene and local media report that seventeen of those attending the event at the scene of the shooting were unharmed.
Hamburg police suspect that one of the at least six people who died in a shooting at a Jehovah’s Witness premises may be the shooter, according to a police spokesman.
The spokesman, Holger Vehren, said there were “indications that a perpetrator is eventually at the scene and that he is one of the deceased”, although there is still no official confirmation of this aspect of the event.