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A gunman shoots and kills several people in a Jehovah’s Witness church in the city of Hamburg, in Germany.

Image: ReutersA gunman believed to have been acting alone killed several people on Thursday in a Jehovah’s Witness church in the German city of Hamburg, police said, as they focused their investigation on the motive for the attack.

The Bild newspaper reported that seven people were dead and eight wounded in the shooting at the Kingdom Hall of Jehovah’s Witness in the northern city that is home to Germany’s biggest port. “Police activities in the surrounding area are being successively discontinued. Investigations into the motives behind the crime are continuing.”

Television footage showed dozens of police cars as well as fire engines blocking off streets and some people, wrapped in blankets, being led by emergency service workers into a bus.

 

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