German authorities respond to shooting inside Jehovah’s Witness hall that killed multiple people

A gunman opened fire at a Jehovah’s Witness hall in Hamburg, Germany, on Thursday evening, killing several people and injuring others, police.

The shooting took place around 9 pm. The exact number of dead and number of injured is not clear.

Armed police officers near the scene of a shootout after one or more people opened fire at a church in Hamburg, Germany, Thursday, March 9, 2023. (Jonas Walzberg/dpa via AP)

Regarding the shooting in the Gross Borstel district of Germany’s second largest city, police spokesman Holger Wehren said: “We only know that there are many people killed, many people are injured, they have been taken to hospitals.” ”

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He said he had no information about the seriousness of the injured. Police did not confirm German media reports, which had no sources for the six or seven dead.

It reported rescue services moving people out of a building used by Jehovah’s Witnesses.

Police officers with special equipment walk past the building of Jehovah’s Witnesses in Hamburg, Germany, Thursday, March 9, 2023. (Jonas Walzberg/dpa via AP)

Wehren said that after officers arrived, they heard a gunshot from the top floor and found a man who may have been the shooter, dead of a gunshot wound to his head.

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Police said early Friday that they were still working to verify whether any other perpetrators were involved.

Hamburg Mayor Peter Schnitzer tweeted that the news was “shocking” and expressed his sympathies to the relatives of the victims.

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Further details about what happened were not immediately available.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.