When police arrived at a Jehovah’s Witness church in Hamburg, Germany, in response to a shooting Thursday, they heard a gunshot on the top floor of the building, a police spokesman said. The building is three stories high, he said.
Hamburg police spokesman Holger Vehren told DailyExpertNews-affiliated NTV reporter Bastian Vollmer that officers arrived at the church around 9:15 p.m. local time. Police previously said the shooting happened around 9 p.m. local time.
When police entered the building, they found several dead and injured on the lower floor, the spokesman said. They found another person dead on the top floor after hearing the gunshot, he said.
Police believe the person on the top floor may have been a gunman, but said no further information could be given at this time, Vehren said. There are currently no indications that a suspect is on the run, said the police spokesperson.
This is reported by the Hamburg police a translated tweet that agents are “working at full speed”. They urged people not to talk about a possible shooter or the shooting itself.
“You would make it much easier for us to communicate about the ongoing operation” in the GroßBorstel district, another translated tweet read.
