Police: Doctor in intensive care after Berlin hospital shooting

Police say the doctor targeted in a shooting at a Berlin hospital is in intensive care, and was shot by a patient who then killed himself.

Initial reports said that the doctor had been killed.

A police spokeswoman says that several shots were fired at the university hospital in the well-heeled southwestern Steglitz neighborhood of the German capital. There was no sign the incident was a terrorist attack, police say.

“According to preliminary information, a patient at the hospital shot a doctor and then killed himself,” the spokeswoman says.

“The doctor is in intensive care,” she says, adding there was “no indication this was a terror attack.”

— AFP

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