Patient kills doctor, commits suicide at Berlin hospital
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 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".
