At least eight people have died in an attack on a hall of Jehovah’s Witnesses in Hamburg, German police said on Friday.
The figure was posted on a police “website” which also reports an unspecified number of casualties.
The shooter, aged between 30 and 40, is a former member of the Jehovah’s Witnesses community, Spiegel magazine reports, citing Reuters. This man was not known to the authorities as an extremist.
Bild daily newspaper previously reported that the attack sparked a “bloodbath” that left at least seven people dead and eight seriously injured.
Authorities have not yet released a possible motive for Thursday night’s shooting in Germany’s second-largest city in the country’s north.