At least six people have died and several more have been injured this Thursday after a shooting in the city of Hamburg, in northern Germany, according to sources from the fire service cited by various local media.
The Bild newspaper is reporting that there are seven dead and at least eight injured.
The perpetrators have fled, according to the same sources.
The number of victims and injured has not yet been confirmed by official sources.
The shooting occurred around 9:00 p.m.
At that moment, the first calls for help to the fire brigade and the Police began to be received, who dispatched a large number of ambulances and emergency services to the area.
The shots were fired at a Jehovah's Witness religious center on Deelböge street, in the Groß Borstel district, north of the city.
The entire area is cordoned off, with roads closed, and security forces have asked citizens not to leave their homes and to seek refuge in a building if they are on the street.
The Hamburg Police have reported that “several people have been seriously injured;
some have died."
The Police add in their Twitter account that it is a large-scale operation with many troops at the scene and that they will offer more information as they become available.
The place of worship where the shooting took place is a three-story building located on a six-lane street in a sparse area of low-rise houses.
The inhabitants of this area have been alerted through a mobile phone application that warns of emergencies and that in this case has reported "extreme danger."
The first images of the scene show a concentration of ambulances and police vehicles.
In a photograph published by
Bild
you can see what he describes as the body of one of the victims lying at the entrance to the center.
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