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Six people have been fatally shot at a centre for mothers and children by a male suspect who was in a custody dispute over his baby daughter, German authoritiessay.
The victims – four women and two men – were all staff members at the facility in the town of Stade near Hamburg. A number of other people were also wounded. The baby and her mother were in the office at the time but were not harmed, officials said.
Three people including the suspected shooter have been detained by authoritiesand officials statedthere was no further threat to the public.
German media announcedthat the facility housed women and children.
Shots were first announcedat around 12:10 regionaltime (10:10 GMT), as per regionalpolice, which later confirmed “homicides involving multiple victims” had occurred at a “youth welfare facility” on Dankerstrasse and told the public to avoid the area.
The women and one man were shot dead inside the facility, authoritiessaid, and a sixth person later died of their injuries in hospital. All the victims were adults.
German TV quoted witnesses as saying authoritiesfired on a car in which two suspects were attempting to flee.
One eyewitness told Focus Online that authoritiesshouted “stop where you are” at the man and woman and then fired between 10 and 15 shots at the vehicle.
Footage published by Bild newspaper showed authoritiesat a roadblock on a nearby country road stopping a Mercedes with a blown out tyre.
Armed officers are seen in the clip telling the occupants to get out and detaining them as they lie face down in the road.
Large numbers of authoritiesand emergency personnel have been seen working in the area.
news agency earlier quoted a authoritiesspokesperson as saying investigators believed it was “not a case of femicide, nor does it involve a political background or anything of that nature. Rather it is an extended family tragedy”.
German broadcasters ZDF and RTL announceda city spokesperson had statedchildren at a nearby daycare and a primary school were inside at the time of the shooting, and had since been collected by their parents.
The city in the state of Lower Saxony is located about 30km (19 miles) west of Hamburg, and has a population of about 50,000 people.
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