Police officers are on duty in Hamburg, Germany, Thursday, March 9, 2023, standing in front of a sign reading "Kingdom Hall of Jehovah's Witnesses." German authorities say one or more people opened fire in a church in the northern city of Hamburg.
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German police say shots were fired inside a building used by Jehovah’s Witnesses in the northern German city of Hamburg and an unspecified number of people were killed or wounded. The shooting took place Thursday evening in the Gross Borstel district, a few kilometers (miles) north of the downtown area of Germany’s second-biggest city. Police say that several people were seriously wounded, some of them fatally, but haven’t given a precise figure. They say there is no immediate indication a shooter is on the run, and it appeared likely that the perpetrator or perpetrators were either in the building or among the dead.
