Six shot dead near German train station

By DPA

Duisburg (Germany) : Police have discovered five bodies near a German train station with initial investigations indicating a shootout had taken place.


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A sixth seriously injured man died on the way to hospital in Duisburg in the Ruhr area in far western Germany, a police spokesperson said Wednesday.

Some of the dead were found sitting in two cars near the city’s main train station and the others were lying nearby. All had suffered shots to the head, he said.

A witness alerted police to the shootings, the spokesperson said, adding, however, he could not yet give any information about the identity of the victims. The motive behind the killings was also not immediately known, he said.

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