According to police, a shooting at a Jehovah's Witness meeting hall in Hamburg, Germany, left seven people dead, including an unborn child.

According to them, the shooter carried out the attack on Thursday alone before killing himself. His motivations are unclear. The suspect, who has only been identified as Philipp F, allegedly harbored "ill will" toward the religious group he had previously belonged to.

The police announced at a briefing on Friday that four men and two women had been shot to death. German nationals were all of the deceased. There were eight injuries, four of them serious. Those hurt included a Ukrainian and a Ugandan. Seven months pregnant and shot, the woman's unborn child perished. Mother made it through.

On Thursday at 21:04 local time (20:04 GMT), the police received the first emergency call reporting gunfire inside a structure on Deelböge Street in the Gross Borstel neighborhood. Four minutes later, officers arrived on the scene, and special forces joined them almost immediately. To get inside the building where about 50 people had gathered, the officers had to break windows. The suspect fled to the first floor and was identified as a 35-year-old "sports shooter" with a gun license. Shortly after, his "lifeless body" was discovered.

Nine magazines of ammunition had been shot by him, and 20 more were discovered in his backpack. Senator Andy Grote of Germany claimed that police officers' "fast and decisive actions" had saved many lives. He added that the attack was the "worst crime" in recent Hamburg history. The police confirmed that they had previously received a tip-off that was anonymous and raised questions about the mental stability of the perpetrator. Officers had visited him following the tip, but they lacked sufficient evidence at the time to take his gun away.

"I didn't realize what was happening," Gregor Miesbach, who recorded the gunman shooting through a first-floor window, told the Bild newspaper. When I zoomed in while using my phone to record, I saw that someone was shooting at Jehovah's Witnesses. "I heard gunfire that was loud... I witnessed a man shooting through a window while filming him, he claimed. Several shots were fired in each of the four bursts of gunfire, which lasted between 20 and 60 seconds, according to Lara Bauch, a 23-year-old student who lives nearby.

She claimed that she could see someone frantically running up to the first floor from her window on the ground floor. She continued, "The man was moving quickly and dressed in dark clothing. On Thursday night, "one or more unknown perpetrators shot at people in a church," according to an alert posted on the government's warning app NINAwarn.