In a church of Jehovah's Witnesses in Hamburg, several people were shot and other people were seriously injured. The attack happened on Thursday evening in the Groß Borstel district, the police said. Officials then discovered a man who appears to have killed himself and whom they believe to be the perpetrator. The background to the act of violence is still unclear, the police and public prosecutor announced many other things at a press conference on Friday.

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