Hamburg Shooting | 8 Dead In Shooting At Jehovah's Witness Centre In Germany | Germany News LIVE
Germany was in shock on Friday after a gunman killed six people as well as an unborn child at a Jehovah’s Witnesses center in Hamburg, before turning the gun on himself as police stormed the building.

The attacker, a 35-year old German national, was a former member of the Jehovah Witnesses community, according to Hamburg’s state prosecutor.

German police are still searching for a possible motive after the shooter opened fire on an event attended by 50 people on Thursday evening. ”Hamburg has never seen a mass shooting like this,” Interior Minister Andy Grote said at a press conference on Friday.

The gunman acted alone, Grote said. ”There could have been more victims if police had not intervened so quickly,” he said.

The mother of the unborn baby that was killed survived her gunshot injuries, Hamburg police chief Matthias Tresp told reporters. Police said that four men and two women – all German nationals between the ages of 33 and 60 – died in the attack.

Eight people were wounded, four of them seriously. Police said that among them are six women and two men; six are German nationals, one injured person is from Uganda and one from Ukraine. The victims are not related to the suspected perpetrator, Tresp said.

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