Several German media also speak of eight seriously injured, while 17 people were evacuated following the shooting. Shortly after the incident, a police spokesman said that the intervention forces “entered the building very quickly and found dead and seriously injured people there”without a precise assessment having been given.
According Der Spiegel, the alleged perpetrator of the shots is a former member of Jehovah’s Witnesses, in his thirties. Armed with a gun, he would have forced his way into the building where the prayer session was held, which was attended by around 50 people, again according to the German magazine.