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German police say 8 are dead in Jehovah's Witnesses hall shooting

Police in Hamburg, Germany, said the shooting killed eight people, apparently including the perpetrator, while an unspecified number of other people were wounded, some of them seriously.
Updated March 10, 2023 at 3:08 AM ET

BERLIN — A shooting at a Jehovah's Witnesses hall in the German city of Hamburg killed eight people, apparently including the perpetrator, police said Friday. An unspecified number of other people were wounded, some of them seriously.

Police gave the figure on their website. There was still no word on

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