BERLIN \u2014 Six people were shot and killed at a youth welfare facility in northern \u200bGermany on Monday, with footage by the Bild newspaper later showing police surrounding and detaining two people from a car that was driving down \u200ca road with a busted tyre.<\/p>\n
Police called the incident a homicide with multiple victims in the town \u2060of Stade near the port city of \u200bHamburg. The motive was not immediately \u2060clear. The Spiegel news outlet, citing information it obtained, said it was likely \u200ca personal rather than \u200cpolitical or extremist matter.<\/p>\n
Police said that two people had been detained, including \u2060the suspected shooter. Police had warned people \u2060to stay away from the area where the incident took place, but later said there was no danger to the general public.<\/p>\n
German media reports initially said four women and one man were dead. Police later said a sixth adult had died in hospital of wounds.<\/p>\n
Police said the incident occurred at \u200ca youth welfare facility in Stade, a town of \u200bnearly 50,000 people to the west of Hamburg. German media said the site included facilities for mothers and children.<\/p>\n
Footage posted by the Bild newspaper showed a car with a busted right tyre slowing to a halt in a tree-lined road. Police with guns then ran towards the car and detained two people who were made to lie flat on the ground.<\/p>\n
Police cordoned off \u200bthe area near the youth facility in a cobbled street with red brick homes, and \u200cforensic experts in \u200cwhite suits \u2060and plainclothes police were at the scene.<\/p>\n
Mass shootings are rare in Germany, especially when compared to the United States. In 2023, a gunman in Hamburg shot dead six people before killing himself at a Jehovah’s Witness worship hall. In 2016, an 18-year-old \u200cGerman-Iranian man who was \u200bobsessed with mass killings killed at least nine \u200cpeople in Munich.<\/p>\n
Contributing: Tom Sims<\/p>\n
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