Five people were fatally shot outside a youth welfare centre in a town in northern Germany on Monday, in keeping with police.
Two people have been detained, including the suspected shooter.
A motive for the incident, which happened in Stade, a town about 50 kilometres west of the town of Hamburg, was not immediately clear, a police spokesperson told Reuters.
The role of the second individual suspected of being involved is unclear, a second police spokesperson told Reuters, adding that no other suspects were at large.
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Just after the incident, police told residents to avoid the world, which investigators had cordoned off.
Police later said there was no danger to the general public.
Forensic Cops work near the scene where five people were killed in a shooting in Stade, northern Germany, a city some 50 kilometres west of Hamburg, on June 29, 2026.
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Mass shootings are unusual in Germany, though there have been several notable cases in recent times.
In 2023, a gunman in Hamburg shot dead six people before killing himself at a Jehovah’s Witness worship hall. In 2016, an 18-year-old German-Iranian man who was obsessive about mass killings killed a minimum of nine people in Munich.
— It is a developing story; check back for updates.
— with files from Reuters
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