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Berlin hospital shooting: Patient shoots and kills doctor before turning gun on himself | |
(35 minutes later) | |
Police are investigating after a patient shot and killed a doctor before turning the gun on himself at a hospital in Berlin, Germany. | |
German police said the doctor later died of his injuries, adding no one else was injured and saying they had no indications there were other perpetrators. | |
Shots were reported around 1pm local time at the Benjamin Franklin campus of the Charite university hospital in the southwestern neighbourhood of Steglitz. | |
There were "no signs at all" the shooting was linked to terrorism, police said. | |
A spokeswoman for the Benjamin Franklin campus of the Charite university hospital had no immediate comment. | |
The shooting follows four other attacks in Germany since 18 July that have left 10 people dead and dozens injured. | The shooting follows four other attacks in Germany since 18 July that have left 10 people dead and dozens injured. |
A 17-year-old Afghan injured four people in an axe attack on a train in Wuerzburg on 18 July. | |
On Friday, an 18 year-old German-Iranian "obsessed with mass shootings" killed nine people and injured 26 in a shooting spree at a shopping centre in Munich. | |
On Sunday, a suspected suicide bomber blew himself up and injured 15 other people outside a crowded music festival. | |
Earlier that day, a Syrian refugee killed a pregnant woman and injured two others in a machete attack near Stuttgart. |