STORY: Several people were killed by shots in Hamburg on Thursday evening. The police were notified at around 9:15 p.m., police spokesman Holger Vehren said. “The police were relatively close by and then went into the building quite quickly. The police officers who went in there then also found people who may have been seriously injured by firearms and sometimes fatally injured. The officers have also heard a shot himself. From the upper part of the object, we went upstairs and found a person there too. So far we have no indications of fleeing perpetrators. We now have to carry out the evaluations at the crime scene. At the moment “We don’t yet have any clues as to the composition of the victims. We only know that several people died here, several people were injured. They were taken to hospitals. In addition, the crime scene work is now starting.” The shots were fired in a building belonging to Jehovah’s Witnesses. The background is still completely unclear, the spokesman said. “We have no evidence that a perpetrator has fled, we have more evidence that he is a perpetrator in the building, possibly among the dead.” This man reports hearing gunshots. “And there were twelve continuous shots. And I thought it was something on the construction site here, but then it was somehow at the gas station or next door at the Jehovah’s Witnesses. And yes, exactly, we just took a few pictures and saw them , how people were also taken away with a black sack. So that’s all we saw. We didn’t see any perpetrators or anything like that, but just what happened here shortly afterwards.” The incident happened near the Hamburg city park in the north of the Hanseatic city. On Twitter, the police asked to refrain from speculating about the perpetrator and motive. It is being investigated at high pressure, it said.