Four dead and one left injured in German hospital massacre as ’employee’ arrested – World News
Four people are dead and another is seriously injured after a massacre at a German hospital, police have said.
A 51-year-old woman has been arrested after police swarmed on the Oberlin Clinic in Potsdam, which is near the capital city of Berlin, late on Wednesday night.
According to media reports officers arrived at the clinic shortly before 9pm, where they discovered four people dead, and a fifth person described as being ‘seriously injured.’
Bild reports that the attack took place at a facility where people with mental and physical disabilities are cared for and according to police, the victims were all in different rooms.
A police spokesman was reported to have said that the deaths were “the result of violence” and that the woman in custody was the prime suspect.
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It has been reported that the suspect is an employee but this is yet to be confirmed by authorities.
It was unclear if the dead were patients at the clinic and there was no information released regarding any motive.
Officers remain at the scene and crime scene investigators have also been spotted.
Potsdamer Neueste Nachrichten reports that a homicide team from the West Police Department had taken over the investigation into suspected “intentional homicide”.
It writes that the incident is ‘probably the most serious homicide in Potsdam for decades.’
Based in Potsdam, the capital of Brandenburg, the state that surrounds the German capital, the Oberlin Clinic is a specialist orthopaedic hospital with some 160 beds and 300 staff.
