Five people were fatally shot outside a youth welfare centre in a town in northern โGermany on Monday, according to 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 city of Hamburg, was not immediately clear, a police spokesperson told Reuters.
The role of the โsecond individual suspected of being involved is unclear, a second police spokesperson told Reuters, adding that no โother suspects were at large.
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Just after the incident, police told residents to โstay away from the area, which investigators had cordoned off.
Police later said there was no danger to the public.
Forensic Police officers 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 uncommon in Germany, though there have been several notable cases in recent years.
In 2023, a gunman in Hamburg shot โdead six people before killing himself โat โ a Jehovahโs Witness worship hall. In 2016, an 18-year-old German-Iranian man who was obsessed with mass killings โ killed โat least nine people in โMunich.
โ This is a developing story; check back for updates.
โย with files from Reuters
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