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Patient kills doctor, commits suicide at Berlin hospital

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A patient shot and killed a doctor before turning the gun on himself at a Berlin hospital Tuesday, police said, adding there was no sign the incident was a terrorist attack.

Police said the shooter was a 72-year-old German man who had been treated Monday at a university hospital in the well-heeled southwestern Steglitz neighbourhood.

He returned Tuesday and opened fire on a doctor before committing suicide.

A police spokeswoman told AFP there was "no indication this was a terror attack".

Berlin police later tweeted that the 55-year-old German doctor had died of his wounds.

The shooting came with Germany already on edge after four brutal attacks in the south of the country.

A police van at a Berlin hospital where a patient shot and killed a doctor before turning the gun on...
A police van at a Berlin hospital where a patient shot and killed a doctor before turning the gun on himself on July 26, 2016
Tobias Schwarz, AFP

A Syrian asylum seeker blew himself up outside a music festival and wounded 15 other people in Ansbach on Sunday, six days after four passengers on a train and a passer-by were wounded in an axe attack by another asylum seeker in Wuerzburg.

The Islamic State group claimed both attacks.

On Friday, nine people were killed in a shopping centre shooting spree in Munich by a German-Iranian teenager with a history of psychological problems but no apparent links to jihadists.

And a Syrian refugee killed a 45-year-old Polish woman with a large kebab knife Sunday at a snack bar in the southwestern city of Reutlingen.

Police concluded that the incident, in which three others were injured, was likely a "crime of passion".

A patient shot and killed a doctor before turning the gun on himself at a Berlin hospital Tuesday, police said, adding there was no sign the incident was a terrorist attack.

Police said the shooter was a 72-year-old German man who had been treated Monday at a university hospital in the well-heeled southwestern Steglitz neighbourhood.

He returned Tuesday and opened fire on a doctor before committing suicide.

A police spokeswoman told AFP there was “no indication this was a terror attack”.

Berlin police later tweeted that the 55-year-old German doctor had died of his wounds.

The shooting came with Germany already on edge after four brutal attacks in the south of the country.

A police van at a Berlin hospital where a patient shot and killed a doctor before turning the gun on...

A police van at a Berlin hospital where a patient shot and killed a doctor before turning the gun on himself on July 26, 2016
Tobias Schwarz, AFP

A Syrian asylum seeker blew himself up outside a music festival and wounded 15 other people in Ansbach on Sunday, six days after four passengers on a train and a passer-by were wounded in an axe attack by another asylum seeker in Wuerzburg.

The Islamic State group claimed both attacks.

On Friday, nine people were killed in a shopping centre shooting spree in Munich by a German-Iranian teenager with a history of psychological problems but no apparent links to jihadists.

And a Syrian refugee killed a 45-year-old Polish woman with a large kebab knife Sunday at a snack bar in the southwestern city of Reutlingen.

Police concluded that the incident, in which three others were injured, was likely a “crime of passion”.

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