Shooting in German city leaves at least 8 people dead: Police

Eight people were killed in shootings in the German city of Hanau on Wednesday evening, specialists said. Two hookahs relax supposedly were focused on.

Specialists were looking for the culprits early Thursday, three hours after the shootings which occurred at around 10 p.m. (2100 GMT).

A short police proclamation gave no data on the people in question. It said the rationale isn't promptly clear.

Police said a dim vehicle was seen leaving the location of the primary shooting, and another shot was accounted for at a subsequent site.

Local open telecaster Hessischer Rundfunk stated, without referring to sources, that an assault occurred in a hookah relax in the focal point of the city. It said observers announced hearing eight or nine shots and seeing in any event one individual lying on the ground.

The culprit or culprits at that point went to another piece of the city, where shots were discharged in another hookah relax, the supporter said.

Hanau is in southwestern Germany, around 20 kilometres (12 miles) east of Frankfurt. It has about 100,000 occupants.