Patient kills doctor in Berlin, commits suicide - UPDATING

  26 July 2016    Read: 2925
Patient kills doctor in Berlin, commits suicide  - UPDATING
A patient shot at a doctor in the Benjamin Franklin University Hospital in Berlin, police said. After the attack he committed suicide.

"The doctor in Steglitz has unfortunately passed away," German police said on Twitter.



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"The doctor was critically injured and is currently in intensive care," Berlin police said on Twitter.



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15:45

A shooting has taken place in Berlin with a doctor coming under fire. The attacker shot himself dead, German Bild.de reported.

Police have arrived at the scene. The shooting reportedly occurred at the University Hospital in the German capital`s Steglitz district at around 11:00 GMT.

"We learned about it a few moments ago. We still do not know what happened," a police spokesman said as quoted by Der Tagesspiegel.

"I stood in front of the main entrance, when suddenly a lot of police approached. Heavily armed officers have secured all entrances," a witness told Der Tagesspiegel.



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15:40

A shooting has been reported at a Berlin hospital, RT reported.

​Germany has been on high alert following a string of attacks.

A Syrian national whose asylum application had been turned down and who was to be deported to Bulgaria after living in Germany for a year, detonated a bomb late on Sunday in the Bavarian city of Ansbach, killing himself and wounding 15 bystanders.

The same day, another Syrian refugee killed a female colleague with a machete in the southern city of Reutlingen, near Stuttgart.

Earlier, an 18-year-old German-Iranian man Ali David Sonboly opened fire in a crowded Olympia shopping mall and a nearby McDonald`s restaurant, killing nine people before committing suicide.

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