A Bundeswehr soldier is suspected of having shot four people in two communities in Lower Saxony. On Friday morning, the German is said to have surrendered at the Von Düring barracks in the city of Rotenburg (Wümme) The soldier drove to the barracks, got out of a car and identified himself.

There was a Molotov cocktail in the driver's door of the car, and there was ammunition in the trunk next to a Bundes Wehr backpack. The background to the crime remains unclear.