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.
"A major police intervention is taking place at the moment in Alsterdorf", a neighborhood in the north of the city, the Hamburg (northwest) police confirmed on Twitter.
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The attackers fled, according to the same sources.
Around 9:00 p.m. the first emergency calls began to be received from the fire brigade and the police, who sent a large number of ambulances to the area.
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