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Germany
Patient shoots doctor at Berlin hospital before killing himself
There are no indications it was a terror attack. The doctor is in intensive care.
A PATIENT HAS shot a doctor before taking his own life at a Berlin hospital, according to German police.
A police spokeswoman told AFP that several shots were fired at a university hospital in the Steglitz neighbourhood of the German capital.
“According to preliminary information, a patient at the hospital shot a doctor and then killed himself,” she said.
“The doctor is in intensive care,” the spokeswoman said, adding there was “no indication this was a terror attack”.
The shooting came with Germany already on edge after four brutal attacks in the south of the country.
A Syrian asylum seeker blew himself up outside a music festival and wounded 15 other people in Ansbach on Sunday, six days after four passengers on a train and a passer-by were wounded in an axe attack by another asylum seeker in Wuerzburg on 18 July.
The Islamic State group claimed both attacks.
On Friday, nine people were killed in a shopping centre shooting spree in Munich by a German-Iranian teenager with a history of psychological problems but no apparent links to jihadists.
And a Syrian refugee killed a 45-year-old Polish woman with a large kebab knife Sunday at a snack bar in the southwestern city of Reutlingen.
Police concluded that the incident, in which three others were injured, was likely a “crime of passion”.
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