© Kai Moorschlatt/NordwestMedia TV/dpa/picture allianceThe shootings took place at two residential addresses a short distance away from each other overnight
Police and prosecutors in Lower Saxony say a Bundeswehr soldier turned himself in after four people, including
one child, were shot and killed in two locations overnight.
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Bundeswehr soldier is suspected of killing four people overnight in the northern German state of
Lower Saxony, police and public prosecutors said on Friday.
Rotenburg police and the prosecutor's office in Verden issued a joint statement saying that one child was among the four dead bodies
discovered on Friday morning at two locations.
What do we know about the case?
The shootings took place at two
domestic residences, one in Westervesede and the other in Bothel.
"The currently suspected Bundeswehr soldier turned himself in shortly after the crimes and was arrested by police officers,"
authorities said in the joint statementInvestigations were ongoing, they said.
"The motive of the perpetrator is currently not definitively known. A motive based on familial ties cannot be ruled out," police and prosecutors said.
Police presence outside local barracksInvestigators were present on Friday morning near the
von-Düring Kaserne barracks to the northwest of Rotenburg, a town of roughly 22,000 people to the east of Bremen.
A black car parked outside the barracks, containing ammunition and other materials, appeared to be a focus of the investigation. Its doors and tailgate were open and a pile of materials from inside the car was arranged outside it as forensic investigators combed the scene.
Comment: And just over a week ago on the 22nd of February,
Euronews reports:
Four students have been injured, two of them seriously, at a high school in Wuppertal.
Four students were wounded in a stabbing on Thursday at a school in the western German city of Wuppertal, with a suspect - believed to be a student himself - was arrested at the scene.
The incident took place on Thursday morning at the Wilhelm Dörpfeld high school in the city of some 350,000 people near Düsseldorf and Cologne.
Police say four students were wounded, as was the suspect, German news agency dpa reported.
The top regional security official, Herbert Reul, announced that the attack was apparently carried out with a knife by a 17-year-old student.
Reul, the interior minister of North Rhine-Westphalia state, said that at least two of the victims were seriously injured, as was the suspected assailant.
He told the state legislature's home affairs committee that he had been told the suspect inflicted injuries on himself. There was no word on a possible motive, and the suspect was believed to be a lone assailant.
Other students were evacuated from the building after the attack.
This is particularly notable considering Germany's enthusiasm for perpetuating the war in Ukraine, as well as its cheerleading of the Gaza genocide, in addition to the fact that these incidents seem to happen in clusters; sometimes, but not always, within the same country.
For example, back in May, 2023:
Serbia: eight killed in second mass shooting in days, President pledges to seize all firearmsMeanwhile today:
Car ploughs into crowd in Poland leaving 17 people injured including children
Comment: And just over a week ago on the 22nd of February, Euronews reports: This is particularly notable considering Germany's enthusiasm for perpetuating the war in Ukraine, as well as its cheerleading of the Gaza genocide, in addition to the fact that these incidents seem to happen in clusters; sometimes, but not always, within the same country.
For example, back in May, 2023: Serbia: eight killed in second mass shooting in days, President pledges to seize all firearms
Meanwhile today: Car ploughs into crowd in Poland leaving 17 people injured including children