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Multiple Dead After Shooting At Hamburg-Area 'Church'

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(The Guardian) There has been a deadly shooting at a church in the German city of Hamburg.

Six people are dead and several injured, local media says. The perpetrators are on the run. Police have said several people died in the shooting. “According to first indications, shots were fired in a church in Deelboege street in the Grossborstel district. Several people were seriously injured, some even fatally,” police wrote on Twitter.

Bild is reporting that the shooting took place at a Jehovah’s Witness church.

(5:17pm US EST) The latest update from Hamburg police is in: The shooting took place at around 9pm, police said, adding that there were “one or more unknown” assailants.

They alerted people to an “extreme danger” in the area using a catastrophe warning app.

Residents must stay indoors and avoid the area, police said, adding that streets surrounding the church have been cordoned off.
 
RIP to the victims.
 

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