Five people have been shot and killed in a town in northern Germany, while police said they had detained two individuals, including the suspected shooter.<\/p>\n
The motive for the incident in Stade, close to the port city of Hamburg, was not immediately clear, a police spokesperson said.<\/p>\n
The role of the second individual in custody remains unclear, a second police spokesperson said, adding that no other suspects were at large.<\/p>\n
It is unclear how many people were injured, he said, adding that the dead were all adults.<\/p>\n
Police believe the incident occurred at a youth welfare facility in Stade, a town of nearly 50,000 people to the west of Hamburg.<\/p>\n
After the incident, police warned residents to steer clear of the area.<\/p>\n
Mass shootings are relatively rare in Germany, especially when compared to the United States, but it has seen a spate of high-profile cases.<\/p>\n
In 2023, a gunman in Hamburg shot dead six people before killing himself at a Jehovah’s Witness worship hall.<\/p>\n
In 2016, an 18-year-old German-Iranian man who was obsessed with mass killings killed at least nine people in Munich.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Five people have been shot and killed in a town in northern Germany, while police said they had…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":524240,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[61,60,112],"class_list":["post-524239","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/524239","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=524239"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/524239\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/524240"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=524239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=524239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=524239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}