At least six people have been murdered and many more injured in a gun rampage at a Jehovah's Witness church in the German city of Hamburg on Thursday night.

Police said that they started to receive emergency calls shortly after 9.15pm (10.15pm GMT), alerting them to shots in the Alsterdorf district.

The first officers to arrive at the scene found several dead bodies as well as seriously injured people.

Read more here: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2023/03/09/multiple-dead-shooting-church-germany/

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Several local news outlets reported that the officers heard a final shot being fired once they had entered the building.
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