Shots were fired inside a building used by Jehovah’s Witnesses in the German city of Hamburg on Thursday evening, and an unspecified number of people were killed or wounded, police said.
Armed police officers near the scene of a shooting in Hamburg, Germany on Thursday March 9, 2023 after one or more people opened fire in a church. The Hamburg city government says the shooting took place in the Gross Borstel district on Thursday evening. Armed police officers near the scene of a shooting in Hamburg, Germany on Thursday March 9, 2023 after one or more people opened fire in a church.
The shooting took place in the Gross Borstel district, a few kilometers north of the downtown area of Germany’s second-biggest city. Local media footage showed a big police presence outside the Jehovah’s Witnesses’ Kingdom Hall, a modern three-story building. Vehren said there was no immediate indication that a shooter was on the run and that it appeared likely that the perpetrator or perpetrators were either in the building or among the dead.
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