Monday’s shooting at a youth facility in the German city of Stade has already claimed its sixth victim. the local police informed. She described the incident as a likely “family tragedy”writes TASR according to AFP, DPA and AP agencies. Police initially reported five adult victims – four women and one man. A sixth adult died of his injuries in hospital.
One other person was also injured in the shooting and is in a stable condition, according to the police. writes AFP. DPA reports that several people are injured, but details are not known at this time.
The suspected shooter was detained by the police along with two other persons, and the specific circumstances of the incident are being investigated. The shooting took place around noon in the center of the city of Stade, which lies approximately 40 kilometers west of Hamburg in the state of Lower Saxony. It has about 50,000 inhabitants.
